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Author Mayo, Cris, author

Title Gay-straight alliances and associations among youth in schools / Cris Mayo
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
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Description 1 online resource (169 pages)
Series Queer studies and education
Queer studies and education.
Contents Chapter 1. Challenging Research--The Problems and Limitations of Research Queer, Questioning and Ally Youth -- Chapter 2. Desire, Ethics, and (Mis)Recognitions -- Chapter 3. Complex Associations: Together, Separate, and In Ambivalent Relation -- Chapter 4. Questioning Youth: Post-identity Practices and Spatial Agencies -- Chapter 5. Playing Gender, Desire, and Uncertainties -- Chapter 6. Conclusion: Solidarities, Analogies, Asymmetries
Summary This book examines the formation of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs)--formal and informal--in public schools. These associations provide us with a way to think about intersectionality and tense encounters as spaces of possibility for new kinds of action, new kinds of learning, and newly emergent subjectivities. While such groups are not without problems, they enable a consideration of desire for connection across sexualities, genders, races, and knowledge. By examining subjectivity as a process of negotiation across and within differences in a particular institutional context, the traces of exclusions and gaps in these processes of identification become evident. New formations bear the imprint of exclusions that precede them but also work to fracture divisions, to push at intersections among subject positions, and explore desires for connection and change
Subject Gay-straight alliances in schools.
Sexual minority students -- United States.
Public schools -- Social aspects -- United States
Gay youth -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Lesbian youth -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Transgender youth -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Gay-straight alliances in schools
Gay youth -- Social conditions
Lesbian youth -- Social conditions
Public schools -- Social aspects
Sexual minority students
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781137595294
1137595299