TY - JOUR
T1 - Fashioning sexual selves
T2 - Examining the care of the self in urban adolescent sexuality and gender discourses
AU - Linville, Darla
AU - Carlson, David
PY - 2010/7/15
Y1 - 2010/7/15
N2 - This paper presents data from a qualitative study of urban high school students that asked students to reflect on the experiences of their lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and questioning peers. The focus group participants wrote letters to an imaginary new student at their school, discussed what they see and hear in their schools, and kept journals recording a week's worth of observations. The writings and conversations are analyzed in this paper through the lens of Foucault's Care of the Self in order to understand how young people characterize their own and their peers' actions and words as ethical moves in the fashioning of themselves as sexual subjects.
AB - This paper presents data from a qualitative study of urban high school students that asked students to reflect on the experiences of their lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and questioning peers. The focus group participants wrote letters to an imaginary new student at their school, discussed what they see and hear in their schools, and kept journals recording a week's worth of observations. The writings and conversations are analyzed in this paper through the lens of Foucault's Care of the Self in order to understand how young people characterize their own and their peers' actions and words as ethical moves in the fashioning of themselves as sexual subjects.
KW - Foucault
KW - High school
KW - LGBT
KW - Sex education
KW - Urban
KW - Youth
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U2 - 10.1080/19361653.2010.487775
DO - 10.1080/19361653.2010.487775
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77954454703
VL - 7
SP - 247
EP - 261
JO - Journal of LGBT Youth
JF - Journal of LGBT Youth
SN - 1936-1653
IS - 3
ER -