Subject to Identity: Knowledge, Sexuality, and Academic Practices in Higher Education (SUNY series, Identities in the Classroom) - Softcover

Talburt, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791445720 ISBN 13: 9780791445723

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2000

Synopsis

Challenges the ways "lesbian academics" have been socially constructed.

This interpretive ethnography explores the academic practices of three lesbian faculty members at Liberal U., a public research university. Drawing on poststructural theories, the text takes readers beyond constructions of lesbian faculty that rely on identity, voices, and visibility to consider the construction and shifting meanings of academic research, teaching, and collegial relations in practice. Talburt depicts the complicated relations of knowledge, identity, and sexuality as interrelated terms whose meanings are constructed as contingent possibilities. This book challenges us to rethink policy and practice, identity and difference, and knowledge and ignorance as lived and created in constantly shifting networks of relation.

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About the Author

Susan Talburt is Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at Georgia State University. She is coeditor of Thinking Queer: Sexuality, Culture, and Education.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791445720
• ISBN 13: 9780791445723
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 296