Gay-Straight Alliances and Associations among Youth in Schools

• Main Author: Mayo, Cris (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Queer Studies and Education
• Subjects: Education.; Gender identity in education.; Gender and Education.

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 subjecti...

Table of 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. .