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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2137285
AutoresMargaret A Berg (0000-0002-7674-4730, University of Northern Colorado, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume1
Fascículo1
Páginas15-34
Data de publicação2012-03-15
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Language and Sexuality (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2211-3770 • E-ISSN: 2211-3789
EditoraJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/jls.1.1.02ber
OpenAlexW2333713927
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1

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