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ERIC Number: EJ979581
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1357-3322
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Negotiating Sexuality and Masculinity in School Sport: An Autoethnography
Carless, David
Sport, Education and Society, v17 n5 p607-625 2012
This autoethnography explores challenging and ethically sensitive issues around sexual orientation, sexual identity and masculinity in the context of school sport. Through storytelling, I aim to show how sometimes ambiguous encounters with heterosexism, homophobia and hegemonic masculinity through sport problematise identity development for young same-sex attracted males. By foregrounding personal embodied experience, I respond to an absence of stories of gay and bisexual experiences among males in physical education and school sport, in an effort to reduce a continuing sense of Otherness and difference regarding same-sex attracted males. I rely on the story itself to express the embodied forms of knowing that inhabit the experiences I describe, and resist a finalising interpretation of the story. Instead, I offer personal reflections on particular theoretical and methodological issues which relate to both the form and content of the story.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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