Heterosexism: A pedagogy of homophobic oppression

Abstract

This chapter is written in a tenuous present for sexually and gender diverse Australians. Steps toward equality have been achieved through battles fought by previous generations, resulting in the current fragile rights and freedoms which gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people have in this country. While progress has undoubtedly been made protecting the rights of LGBTIQ people in Australia, and although this progress "may have made institutionalised heterosexuality porous ... it is still subjected to the minoritizing forces that excluded it in the first place" (Weeks, 2007: 32). Any questioning of the heteronormative status quo, however, has not gone unnoticed by those who seek to maintain the status quo.

RAS ID

23941

Document Type

Book Chapter

Date of Publication

2017

Location of the Work

Berlin, Germany

School

School of Education

Copyright

subscription content

Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

Comments

Rhodes, D. (2017). Heterosexism: A pedagogy of homophobic oppression. In D. J. Rivers & K. Zotzmann (Eds.), Isms in language education: Oppression, intersectionality and emancipation (pp. 230-248). De Gruyter Mouton. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501503085-012/html

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