{"product_id":"rethinking-sexual-identity-in-education","title":"Rethinking Sexual Identity in Education","description":"\u003cp\u003eResponding to wide-spread abuse of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning persons (LGBTQs) in education, \u003ci\u003eRethinking Sexual Identity in Education\u003c\/i\u003e examines the heterosexism inherent in both educational theory and practice, conceptualizing as mis-educative compulsory heterosexuality's stigmatization of \"out\" LGBTQs as outsiders. Reflecting upon the Outsiders' Society Virginia Woolf envisioned in \u003ci\u003eThree Guineas\u003c\/i\u003e (1938) for daughters of educated men, this work re-names and re-conceives as \u003ci\u003eOut-Siders\u003c\/i\u003e those people who \"side\" with the \"out\" in order to mitigate compulsory heterosexuality's mis-educative effects. Examining how Out-Siders already bring theory and action to bear on sexual identity, Birden names and explicates six \u003ci\u003epraxes\u003c\/i\u003e used to educate about sexual identity. These \u003ci\u003ePraxes in re Sexual Identity\u003c\/i\u003e range from ignoring or denigrating non-heterosexuality to \"queering discourse\" by de-centering normative gender roles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author utilizes autobiographical and qualitative-research narratives of LGBTQs' experiences in schooling, higher education, and community education to challenge the theoretical and practical weaknesses of these \u003ci\u003ePraxes in re Sexual Identity\u003c\/i\u003e. Finding each to be lacking to test the practicality of each \u003ci\u003epraxis\u003c\/i\u003e. Finding each to be lacking, Birden constructs an \u003ci\u003eOut-Siders' Praxis\u003c\/i\u003e. The significance of this proposed \u003ci\u003eOut-Siders' Praxis\u003c\/i\u003e lies in its educative resistance against cynicism and powerlessness that silence oppressed LGBTQ voices and in its theoretical soundness as a guide for developing curricula that Out-Siders can teach and learn in order to transform heterosexist practices and environments. Birden's \u003ci\u003eOut-Siders' Praxis\u003c\/i\u003e affirms ethical values of liberty, experimentation, and discourse across difference, while advocating that Out-Siders invent and intervene with the attitude of artists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing Plc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54233318457688,"sku":"9780742542945","price":112.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780742542945.jpg?v=1769681713","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/rethinking-sexual-identity-in-education","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}