Queer Stories/Straight Talk: Tales from the School Playground.

Lewis, Magda; Karin, Barbara

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ERIC Number: EJ497056

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1994

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Queer Stories/Straight Talk: Tales from the School Playground.

Lewis, Magda; Karin, Barbara

Theory into Practice, v33 n3 p199-205 Sum 1994

Discusses how sexuality is contained within and consigned to specific, particular, and identifiable spaces, activities, and social interactions in middle schools. The article describes a specific schoolyard incident involving young males to offer a contextual analysis of the difficulties that must be addressed by school reform. (SM)

Descriptors: Athletics, Early Adolescents, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Interaction, Intermediate Grades, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Males, Middle Schools, Physical Activities, Playground Activities, Sexuality, Social Influences

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Canada

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