Quiet Please! There's a Lady on the Stage--Boys, Gender and Sexuality Non-conformity and Class

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ID2921101
AuthorsDavid Mcinnes (Western Sydney University), Murray Couch (Western Sydney University)
Year2004
Volume25
Issue4
Pages431-443
Publication date2004-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDiscourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0159-6306 • E-ISSN: 1469-3739
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0159630042000290937
OpenAlexW2080223603
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited3

In this paper we do two things. Initially, we explore the experience of gender and sexuality non-conformity for boys in school. Here, the designation sissy boy is interpreted through shame dynamics produced in part by the linguistic violence of designation. From this we consider the development of what we call epistemophilic resolutions--the falling in love with knowing that realigns the sissy boy within the school's discursive terrain. As a tentative and unstable resolution to gender and sexuality non-conformity, the epistemophilic resolution operates as a masquerade (after Riviere, 1986 ). Interpreting this resolution as masquerade allows us, in the second section of this paper, to speculate about the political potential inherent in the anxiety that underpins the operation of epistemophilia as a resolution to the shame of sexuality and gender non-conformity. This offers, in our interpretation, a resistance to (fore) closure and thus a disruption to discursive reproduction

Conformity · Epistemology · Falling in love · Human sexuality · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Shame · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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