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Sex-gender-sexuality: how sex, gender, and sexuality
constellations are constituted in secondary schools
Deborah Youdell, University of Cambridge
Author contact details:
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