ERIC Number: EJ1028559
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1066-5684
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Structural Liberalism and Anti-Bullying Legislation
Vaught, Sabina E.
Equity & Excellence in Education, v47 n2 p152-166 2014
This article investigates the legal, semantic, and material implications of Massachusetts' anti-bullying law through an analytic framework of structural liberalism. Specifically, this article asks how the law produces categories of fit and unfit subjects of the state through raced and gendered practices of individualism, paternalism, meliorism, and neutrality. Ultimately, this article suggests that the liberal law draws on and entrenches existing racial categories of victim and perpetrator, making non-dominant dimensions of LGBTQ identity and collectivity in schools legally and ideologically unrecognizable.
Descriptors: Bullying, Legal Responsibility, State Legislation, Racial Factors, Gender Issues, Individualism, Power Structure, Victims, Aggression, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Social Bias, Political Attitudes, School Culture
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Massachusetts
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