Teens' explorations of gender and sexual identities in conversations about/around preferred texts

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2137285
AutoresMargaret A Berg (0000-0002-7674-4730, University of Northern Colorado, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen1
Número1
Páginas15-34
Fecha de publicación2012-03-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Language and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2211-3770 • E-ISSN: 2211-3789
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jls.1.1.02ber
OpenAlexW2333713927
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1

This discourse analysis examines teens' explorations of gender and sexual identities through their talk about their preferred texts accessed in the Young Adult section of a Midwestern public library. The discourse data collected over a two year period and analyzed using a recursive, ethnographic-style approach is informed by queer theory and New Literacy Studies. The practices of teens in the library complicate popular and scholarly discourse that constructs teens as peer-oriented, hormonally-controlled, and transitioning into adulthood. Their practices illustrate savvy, individual choices that allow teens to subvert the heterosexual norms of the adult controlled schools. The close connection between literacy choices and identity implies a need for educators to advocate for adolescents' access to their preferred texts

Discourse analysis · Ethnography · Human sexuality · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literacy · Pedagogy · Queer · Section (typography · Sexual identity · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Gender Studies · Library Science and Administration · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology · Social Media and Politics