Curriculum, gender and sexuality. “Normal”, “different” and "eccentric”

Main Article Content

Guacira Lopes Louro

Abstract

In contemporaneity, "new" cultural identities oblige us to recognize that culture, far from being homogeneous and monolithic, is complex, multiple, inharmonious, discontinuous. A new political and theoretical movement has been put into action in recent decades, and in it, the notions of center, margin and frontier came to be questioned. This article assumes this perspective to analyze the constitution of gender and sexual differences and identities and, more specifically, the ways in which this process is expressed in the field of the curriculum. The article highlights the public and private strategies that are put into action, on a daily basis, to guarantee the stability of the "normal" identity and of all the cultural forms associated with it; as well as the strategies that are deployed to mark the "different" identities and, still, those that seek to overcome the fear and attraction provoked by the "eccentric" identities.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Article Details

How to Cite
Louro, G. L. (2019). Curriculum, gender and sexuality. “Normal”, “different” and "eccentric”. Descentrada, 3(1), e065. https://doi.org/10.24215/25457284e065
Section
Dossier Género, sexualidades y educación. Intersecciones necesarias para una educación emancipatoria

References

Butler, J. (1999). Corpos que pesa: sobre os limites discursivos do “sexo”. Em G. Lopes Louro (org.), O corpo educado: pedagogí­as da sexualidade (pp. 153-172). Belo Horizonte: Autêntica.

Hutcheon, L. (1997). Theorizing feminism and post-modernity – A conversation with Linda Hutcheon by Kathleen O’Grady. Trinity College/University of Cambridge. Recuperado de http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/wstudies/hutcheon.html

Lopes Louro, G. (2018 [2003]). Currí­culo, gênero e sexualidade – O “normal”, o “diferente” o “excêntrico”. Em G. Lopes Louro, J.F. Neckel y S.V. Goellner (org.), Corpo, género e sexualidade. Um debate contemporí¢neo na educação (pp. 41-53). Petrópolis: Vozes.

Lopes Louro, G. (2004). Um corpo estranho: ensaios sobre sexualidade e teoria queer. Belo Horizonte: Autêntica.