"You Must Be Thinking What a Lesbian Man Teacher Is Doing in a Nice Place Like Dipane Letsie School?": Enacting, Negotiating and Reproducing Dominant Understandings of Gender in a Rural School in the Free State, South Africa

Autor/in	Francis, Dennis
Titel	"You Must Be Thinking What a Lesbian Man Teacher Is Doing in a Nice Place Like Dipane Letsie School?": Enacting, Negotiating and Reproducing Dominant Understandings of Gender in a Rural School in the Free State, South Africa
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 26 (2014) 5, S.539-552 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
DOI	10.1080/09540253.2014.947246
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Sexual Orientation; Sexual Identity; Social Attitudes; Rural Schools; Masculinity; Teacher Characteristics; Identification (Psychology); Males; Interviews; Personal Narratives; Secondary School Teachers; Sexuality; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sexuelle Orientierung; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Männlichkeit; Male; Männliches Geschlecht; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Erlebniserzählung; Sexualität; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	In this article I explore two questions -- how does, Thatho, a transgendered life orientation teacher enact, resist and reproduce dominant understandings of gender and sexuality in terms of his own identity and practice; and what specific possibilities, challenges and resistances exist for a transgender educator in the rural. Using life-history research, I show that Thatho challenges essentialist assumptions of gender and identity as he enacts multiple masculinities. My article troubles the common typification of men solely as hegemonic, marginalised or subordinate when indeed the actual accounts of their lives are far more fluid than these rigid distinctions. Thatho's enactment of multiple masculinities talks to the "durability or survivability of non-hegemonic patterns of masculinity" outlined by Connell and Messershmidt [2005. "Hegemonic Masculinity Rethinking the Concept." "Gender & Society" 19 (6): 829-859. doi:10.1177/0891243205278639], which in many ways characterises a well-crafted response to his own marginalisation and stigmatised sexuality. Yet, Thatho's narrative also suggests a significant flexibility in the gender order in Qwaqwa, which looks different from the sometimes inflexibility of rural society and in some research from the developed world and, perhaps, from some urban contexts in contemporary South Africa. (As Provided).
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