The Experiencing, Negotiation, Breaking, and Remaking of Gender Rules and Regulations by Queer Youth

Blackburn, Mollie V.

doi:10.1300/j367v04n02_04

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“…Scholars have documented the ways schools are sites of gender and sexuality policing (Best ; Blackburn ; Epstein ; Epstein et al ; Ferguson ; Fetner et al ; Phoenix ; Renold ; Rofes ; Toomey et al ; Pascoe ), and one only has to look at the daily news of youths who are bullied because of gender or sexual nonconformity to see that schools are central to the lived experiences of marginalized youths and the construction of deviant masculinities. The current story of Lila Perry, a transgender teen in Missouri, provides a salient example of all of the ways that abandoning hegemonic performances of masculinity lead to social sanctions.…”

Section: Youth Masculinities: Media Schools and The Shortcomings Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Homophobia and Deviant Youth Masculinities: Constructing and Interrogating Progress Toward Equality

Levesque

2016

Sociology Compass

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In this article, I examine the discourse of progress toward equality for gender and sexually deviant youths to show that overemphasizing progress decenters the lived experiences of these young people. A survey of masculinity theories like hegemonic masculinity, inclusive masculinity, and fag discourse illuminates divergent ways of thinking about progress as it relates to youth masculinities and social inequality. While young people may have more opportunities to explore meanings of gender and sexuality in schools or in the media, current scholarly debates complicate the presumptions that marginalized youths have reached full equality within these institutions. Cases of bullying based on gender presentation or sexual orientation appear in daily news feeds, and this phenomenon is supported by empirical data. Harder to detect are the less visible, emergent homophobias and microaggressions which must be considered when theorizing about masculinities and progress toward equality.

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Section: Youth Masculinities: Media Schools and The Shortcomings Ofmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Homophobia and Deviant Youth Masculinities: Constructing and Interrogating Progress Toward Equality

Levesque

2016

Sociology Compass

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“…However, his story equally suggests that this was an ongoing negotiation of power between his boss and himself. Joseph's story resonates with wider discussions of young LGBQ people's capacity to transcend victim identities and position themselves as resourceful and creative agents in speaking back to oppressive experiences (Blackburn, 2007;Hillier & Harrison, 2004). Simultaneously, there are also clear constraints within work relationships and work cultures on how far young employees can extend their power as autonomous agents.…”

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Connecting, Supporting, Colliding: The Work-Based Interactions of Young LGBQ-Identifying Workers and Older Queer Colleagues

Willis

2010

Journal of LGBT Youth

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While attention has been given to older employees' experiences of sexuality-based discrimination and harassment, this paper explores young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer identifying employees' (18-26 years old) accounts of working with queer coworkers and managers in Australian workplaces. Two sets of relationships are evidenced and discussed: (a) relationships of connection, affirmation, and support, and (b) relationships of conflict and division. These relationships highlight the multiple points of difference in organizational power and social status between younger and older lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer identifying employees. This sparks a critical appraisal of the limitations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer employee groups and networks as a strategy for developing inclusive organizations.The workplace is arguably far more than a site of paid employment and income generation-it also functions as a social space for connecting to significant others, developing notions of citizenship, and engaging in meaningful employment. For nonheterosexual workers the workplace can represent a space of social division, oppression, and exclusion founded on sexual hierarchies spanning across work cultures (

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“…Empirical research across a variety of fields has demonstrated that individuals whose bodies, gender expressions and/or sexual orientations place them outside the socially accepted range of heteronormative expectations negotiate increased risks of marginalization. The consequences of such risks may negatively impact their abilities to successfully perform in a variety of institutional contexts, such as leisure activities, education settings, and employment situations (Blackburn, 2007;Ezzell, 2009;Grossman, 1992;Robinson & Espelage, 2011).…”

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Heteronormativity in Leisure Research: Emancipation as Social Justice

Robinett

2014

Leisure Sciences

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Leisure research has the capacity to contribute to social justice when it provides emancipatory spaces for the interrogation of pervasive heteronormative ideologies. Heteronormative ideologies permeate social practices much like infections pollute a body. Research is not immune to heteronormativity, given that assumed links among sex, gender, and sexual orientation can pervert empirical inquiry. In this essay I suggest that by interrogating categories and relational positions as practices of power, leisure scholars may better examine to what level heteronormative ideologies are corrupting socially just research. By exposing how social practices regulate bodies relationally, emancipatory space is created for describing, interrogating, and challenging how heteronormative regulatory practices simultaneously privilege and oppress. I conclude this essay by suggesting that emancipatory research can create opportunities for social justice when researchers and participants are transparent in recognizing and respecting the uniqueness of their own positions and those of others.

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The Experiencing, Negotiation, Breaking, and Remaking of Gender Rules and Regulations by Queer Youth

Cited by 41 publications

References 16 publications

Rethinking Homophobia and Deviant Youth Masculinities: Constructing and Interrogating Progress Toward Equality

Rethinking Homophobia and Deviant Youth Masculinities: Constructing and Interrogating Progress Toward Equality

Connecting, Supporting, Colliding: The Work-Based Interactions of Young LGBQ-Identifying Workers and Older Queer Colleagues

Heteronormativity in Leisure Research: Emancipation as Social Justice

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