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Ghost Stories from the Academy: A Trans Feminine Reckoning
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Nicolazzo, Z. – Review of Higher Education, 2021
Here, authors provide a snapshot of their manuscript, and which readers often overlook, causing some authors to repeat the abstract in the main body of their texts. Like foot- and endnotes, abstracts are shadow texts. In these shadows, we as trans feminine people keep some of the more painful moments of our existence, not wanting to feed nontrans…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Femininity, Gender Bias, Ethnography
Methodological Troubles with Gender and Sex in Higher Education Survey Research
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Garvey, Jason C.; Hart, Jeni; Metcalfe, Amy Scott; Fellabaum-Toston, Jennifer – Review of Higher Education, 2019
We examine the American landscape of higher education quantitative research concerning how gender and sex demographic information is collected. We use a directed content analysis to examine the prevalence and operationalization of gender and sex among widely used higher education survey instruments. Our findings illuminate a seemingly haphazard…
Descriptors: Research Problems, Educational Research, Higher Education, Data Collection
Transgender People at Four Big Ten Campuses: A Policy Discourse Analysis
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Dirks, Doris Andrea – Review of Higher Education, 2016
This article examines the language used to discuss transgender people on university campuses. This study asks how, despite seemingly benefitting transgender people, the discourses carried by the documents that discuss trans people may actually undermine the intended goals of policy initiatives. For example, a report on the status of transgender…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, College Students, School Policy, Language Usage
Contradiction and Paradox: Attempting to Change the Culture of Sexual Orientation at a Small Catholic College.
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Love, Patrick G. – Review of Higher Education, 1997
A case study explored attempts to change the culture related to sexual orientation at a small, Catholic college. Focus was on the perceptions and experiences of gay, lesbian, and bisexual students, staff, faculty, and their allies. These participants experienced a culture filled with contradictions and paradoxes. The report delineates and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Case Studies, Catholic Schools, Change Strategies
The Cultural Politics of Coming Out in College: Experiences of Male Students.
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Rhoads, Robert A. – Review of Higher Education, 1995
Individual profiles from an ethnographic study of gay/bisexual male students at Pennsylvania State University are presented, focusing on the experience of coming out while in college. Issues discussed include the relationship of language, culture, and power in shaping experience; overt student actions as political statements; and efforts to open…
Descriptors: Bisexuality, Case Studies, College Environment, College Students
The Influence of Both Race and Gender on the Experiences of African American College Women.
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Jackson, Lisa R. – Review of Higher Education, 1998
At four colleges, 135 African American women students completed measures of self-concept, gender identity, and ethnic identity, and were interviewed. Results suggest that women's self-concepts of race and gender are experienced differently depending on their school's racial and gender composition. Colleges should reexamine diversity efforts to…
Descriptors: Black Students, College Environment, College Students, Diversity (Student)