Queer Bodies: Sexualities, Genders, and Fatness in Physical Education (Complicated Conversation)
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (963 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1433111616 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 157 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
It illustrates how students with queer bodies – whether lesbian, gay, transgendered, or overweight or fat – cope with homophobia, transphobia, and fat phobia in physical education. Drawing from qualitative interviews with forty people, the book reveals how students are marginalized, in a variety of ways, because they do not conform to taken-for-granted ideas about healthy or athletic bodies. The book provides a critical examination of discrimination based on sexuality, gender, and body size in Canadian physical education. This book brings together three areas of current public debate – sexuality, gender, and obesity – that will be of interest to curriculum workers, critical educators, physical educators, and professionals working in the areas of health, recreation, and sport. Using psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer theories, the book calls for critical educators to work toward ethical encounters with queer bodies in order to address these forms of discrimination in schools, physical education, and sport settings.
tangential said Queer Bodies. This book is an eloquent contribution to current theoretical conceptualizations of the embodied intersections of queerness, fatness, and transness. It moves beyond the ways we are in which we are forced into being complicit with our own oppression through internalization by focusing on a decolonization of language, thought, and action.
Her research uses postmodern and queer theories to critically examine issues of sexuality, transgender, and fatness in physical education and sport sociology. . About the Author Heather Sykes is Associate Professor of Physical Education in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her work has been published in Body and Society, Journal of Curriculum Studies, and the Sociology of Sport Journal. She has also worked as co-editor of Curriculum Inquiry
. Her work has been published in Body and Society, Journal of Curriculum Studies, and the Sociology of Sport Journal. She has also worked as co-editor of Curriculum Inquiry. Heather Sykes is Associate Professor of Physical Education in the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her research uses postmodern and queer theories to critically examine issues of