Subject to Identity: Knowledge, Sexuality, and Academic Practices in Higher Education (Identities in Classroom (Dis))

Talburt, Susan

ISBN 10: 0791445720 / ISBN 13: 9780791445723

Published by State University of New York Press (edition ), 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Subject to Identity: Knowledge, Sexuality, and Academic Practices in Higher Education (Identities in Classroom (Dis))
• Publisher: State University of New York Press (edition )
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791445720
• ISBN 13: 9780791445723
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

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.

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.