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Pleasure games (of truth) in boys' schooling: interrogating gender and sexuality through a pleasure lens
Despite a policy environment in US K-12 Physical Education (PE) that calls for the ‘full inclusion of all students’, research that establish schools, PE and sport as sites of heteronormative and masculinising practices continues to be reported. In this chapter, we adopt a Foucauldian pleasure lens to interrogate the particular games of truth/truth regimes that adolescent boys’ in two specific boys’ school sites in New Zealand and Australia negotiate in their experiences of PE, sport and broader school cultures. We argue that pleasure is the glue that (re)produces heteronormative schooling cultures and existing (unequal) power relations between different identities/subjectivities. In conclusion, we that suggest interrogations of the interrelationship/s between masculinity, sexuality and sport through a pleasure lens offers new theoretical perspectives to explore normalised cultural practices and offer potential to make visible spaces in which these can be productively disrupted.
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Exploring gender and LGBTQ issues in K-12 and teacher education: a rainbow assemblageSeries
Research in Queer StudiesPagination
53 - 69Publisher
Information Age PublishingPlace of publication
Charlotte, N.C.ISBN-13
9781641136198Language
engPublication classification
B1 Book chapterCopyright notice
2019, Information Age PublishingEditor/Contributor(s)
Adrian Martin, Kathryn StromUsage metrics
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