Contribution to Book
Defining Gender and Sexuality in LGBTQ Memoirs
Literacies, Sexualities, and Gender: Understanding Identities from Preschool to Adulthood
(2018)
Abstract
The lived experiences of youth in increasingly diverse educational spaces embody a complex reality that is not always present in the literature, texts, and materials within classrooms, schools, and libraries. Memoirs can serve as an important genre for considering the lived experiences of youth as they relate to narratives of growing up and coming of age and negotiating expressions of gender and sexuality within the individual’s culture and society. Furthermore, memoirs can serve as significant sites for youth and adults to examine the socially constituted (or alternatively, naturally occurring) nature of gender and sexuality. These types of books offer a way to examine expressions of gender and sexuality as they are defined through the complex negotiation of forces outside the individual parents, family, friends, school, religion, culture, nation, and society.
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall 2018
Citation Information
Kate E. Kedley and Jenna Spiering. "Defining Gender and Sexuality in LGBTQ Memoirs" Literacies, Sexualities, and Gender: Understanding Identities from Preschool to Adulthood (2018) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kate-kedley/13/