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Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

2009

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Resisting Regulation: Lgbtq Teens And Discourses Of Sexuality And Gender In High Schools, Darla Linville Jan 2009

Resisting Regulation: Lgbtq Teens And Discourses Of Sexuality And Gender In High Schools, Darla Linville

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This dissertation documents a participatory action research project designed to understand discourses of sexuality and gender in New York City high schools. Lesbian, gay, and bisexual high school students participated as co-researchers in documenting discourses in popular culture, news reports, youth development reports, and through writing exercises about their own experiences. Together researchers created a modified Q sort (the Queer Q Sort) and surveyed a snowball sample of 21 lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and questioning (LGBTQ) high school students about the discourses of sexuality and gender they encounter in their schools and the ways that they accept or reject …