| Preliminary Program subject to change | ||
| Wearing the Secret Out: A Dramatic Performance about Homophobia and Homoeroticism in Physical Education | ||
| Structure | LGBTA | |
| Description | This session will be a dramatic performance of ethnographic research involving actors followed by audience discussion. The performance is based on verbatim excerpts from life history interviews with eight North American physical education teachers who self-identified as ‘lesbian’, ‘gay male’ and ‘queer’. The performance focuses on issues of sexual identity, teaching approaches, homophobia and homoeroticism in physical education. It is an interdisciplinary project between physical education and drama education that attempts to “give flesh and breath" (Pratt, 1995) to feminist-queer theories about sexuality and teaching. Thus, it is hoped that the performance will evoke resonances between the body of knowledge and knowledge of the body. | |
| Speakers: | Heather J. Sykes, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada Anne Swedberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI Jennifer Chapman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI | |