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Godley, Amanda – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2006
This article demonstrates how literacy practices in an 11th grade, urban, English classroom in the United States worked to delineate and patrol gender borders between acceptable masculine and feminine social practices. Drawing upon Blackburn's (2005) and Thorne's (1993) studies of the gendered boundaries that are created and questioned in literacy…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Sexual Orientation, Literacy, Grade 11
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Woody, Elisabeth L. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2003
This article examines heterosexist assumptions and the role of homophobia in students' experiences in California's public "Single Gender Academies," in an effort to include issues of sexuality in current discourses on adolescent gender identity and public school reform. Interviews with students, conducted as part of the most…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, School Restructuring