Appleby, Yvon

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ERIC Number: EJ556253

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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ISSN: ISSN-0962-0214

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"Decidedly Different": Lesbian Women and Education.

Appleby, Yvon

International Studies in Sociology of Education, v6 n1 p67-86 1996

Explores the meanings and connections between two different identities: women (visible) and lesbian (invisible). Utilizes a series of interviews to examine the complex relationships that exist between individual identity meanings and those that are socially constructed and maintained within an educational system. Includes many verbatim comments from participants. (MJP)

Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Educational Experience, Educational Sociology, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Homophobia, Homosexuality, Humanistic Education, Identification (Psychology), Individual Development, Lesbianism, Self Actualization, Sexuality, Student Needs, Student Welfare

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Audience: Researchers

Language: English

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Note: Part 1 of a theme issue, "Pedagogy, Identity and the Politics of Difference." Available from: Triangle Journals Ltd, PO Box 65, Wallingford, Oxfordshire OX10 0YG, United Kingdom. World Wide Web: http://www.triangle.co.uk