Constructing Sexualities and Gendered Bodies in School Spaces

Jón Ingvar Kjaran is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Education, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Iceland. He is also a fellow at UNU-GEST (United Nations University on Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme). Kjaran has published several articles in various International Journals on gender equality, LGBTQ issues, and sexuality.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. The Schooling of Gendered Bodies and Sexualities.- 3. The Nordic Context: LGBTQ Civil Rights and Educational Policies on Gender and Sexual Minorities.- 4. The Institutionalization of Heteronormativity in Schools.- 5. Ethical Relationality and Heterotopic Spaces in Schools.- 6. Queering Schools, Queer Pedagogy.- 7. Beyond Queer Utopias and Post-Gay Agendas.