Constructing Sexualities and Gendered Bodies in School Spaces: Nordic Insights on Queer and Transgender Students: 2017 (Queer Studies and Education)

This book sheds light on how sexuality and gender intersect in producing heteronormativity within the school system in Iceland. In spite of recent support for progressive policies regarding sexual and gender equality in the country, there remains a discrepancy between policy and practice with respect to LGBTQ rights and attitudes within the school system. This book draws on ethnographic data and interviews with LGBTQ students in high schools across the country and reveals that, although Nordic countries are sometimes portrayed as queer utopias, the school system in Iceland has a long road ahead in making schools more inclusive for all students. "Foreword"--"Acknowledgments"--"Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "Chapter 1: Introduction" -- "Statement of Aims" -- "Welcome to Iceland: Entering the Field" -- "Organization of the Book" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 2: The Schooling of Gendered Bodies and Sexualities" -- "LGBTQ+ or Queer as an Identity Label?" -- "Interrupting Hetero and Gender Normativities in the School System" -- "Queer Theory: The Intersection of Gender and Sexuality" -- "Trans Perspective on Gender, Sexuality and Queer Theory" -- "Normalization of Heterosexuality: Heterosexism and Heteronormativity" -- "Queering Space: Queer Spaces" -- "Disciplinary and Heterotopic Space(s): Power, Subject and Resistance" -- "Technologies of the Self: Caring and Knowing" -- "Significant Literature that Addresses Key Questions and Issues Related to LGBTQ Youth in Schools and Anti-Homophobic Education" -- "Queer Positionality: Queer Standpoint: Doing Queer Research as a Gay Male Teacher" -- "Summary" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 3: The Nordic Context: LGBTQ Civil Rights and Educational Policies on Gender and Sexual Minorities" -- "The Nordic Context in a Global Comparison as it Refers to LGBTQ Rights" -- "Queering the Arctic: The Case of Iceland" -- "Education Policies Related to Sexualities and Transgender Identities" -- "Denmark" -- "Finland" -- "Iceland" -- "Norway" -- "Sweden" -- "Summary: A Notion of a Queer Utopia in the Nordic" -- "Notes" -- "Bibliography" -- "Chapter 4: The Institutionalization of Heteronormativity in Schools" -- "LGBTQ Studentsâ#x80;#x99; Embodied School Experiences" -- "Heterosexual Matrix, Heterosexism and Gender Normativities" -- "Hegemonic Heterosexual Masculinity" -- "The Homophobic Space of the Classroom" -- "Questioning Sexuality" Front Matter....Pages i-xv Introduction....Pages 1-12 The Schooling of Gendered Bodies and Sexualities....Pages 13-58 The Nordic Context: LGBTQ Civil Rights and Educational Policies on Gender and Sexual Minorities....Pages 59-95 The Institutionalization of Heteronormativity in Schools....Pages 97-146 Ethical Relationality and Heterotopic Spaces in Schools....Pages 147-175 Queering Schools, Queer Pedagogy....Pages 177-202 Beyond Queer Utopias and Post-gay Agendas....Pages 203-210 Back Matter....Pages 211-243