The Power of Things! A ‘New’ Ontology of Sexuality at School

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ID20073568
AutoresLouisa Allen (0000-0003-2995-4417, University of Auckland, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Páginas611-630
Data de publicação2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoCHAPTER
PeriódicoThe Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/978-1-137-40033-8_30
OpenAlexW4250503130
ISBN9781137400338
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas29

This chapter contributes to the mapping of a 'new' ontology of sexuality at school. Drawing on new feminist materialist thinking from Barad (Meeting the universe halfway: quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press, Durhman, 2007), Bennett (The force of things: steps toward an ecology of matter. Polit Theo 32(3):347–372, 2004) and Lenz Taguchi (2013), it analyses photographs from a project on the sexual cultures of schooling in a way that takes 'things' or 'matter' seriously. Seeking to disrupt the idea that humans represent the only site for, and expression of sexuality, it explores how matter and meaning are co-constitutive in sexuality's becoming at school. Instead of seeing sexuality as discursively constituted through a plethora of schooling processes and practices, another proposition is offered. Sexuality does not pre-exist matter/meaning but comes into being via their relation

Epistemology · Human sexuality · Materialism · Ontology · Physics · Proposition · Sociology · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism