Subject to Identity
Subtitle: Knowledge, Sexuality, and Academic Practices in Higher Education (Suny Series, Identities in the Classroom)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: April 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780791445723
Subjects: Education; Lesbian Studies; Lesbian college teachers; Higher; Education / Teaching; United States; Lesbians; Case studies; Identity; Social conditions
Description: "This interpretive ethnography explores the academic practices of three lesbian faculty members at Liberal U., a public research university. Drawing on post-structural 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."--Jacket.