Sex-gender-sexuality: how sex, gender, and sexuality constellations are constituted in secondary schools



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Sex-gender-sexuality: how sex, gender, and sexuality
constellations are constituted in secondary schools

Deborah Youdell, University of Cambridge

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Dr Deborah Youdell

Lecturer in Education

Faculty of Education

University of Cambridge

Shaftesbury Road

Cambridge CB2 2XB

UK

Email: [email protected]

Tel: +44 1223 369631

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Sex-gender-sexuality: how sex, gender, and sexuality
constellations are constituted in secondary schools

Abstract

This paper explores the relationships between sex, gender, and sexuality through a series
of close readings of data generated through an ethnography undertaken in a south London
secondary school. The paper takes as its focus girls aged 15 to 16 and considers how
particular sexed, gendered, and sexualised selves are constituted. Drawing on Foucault’s
understanding of subjectivation and the subsequent work of Judith Butler, in particular



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