Identity Politics, Institutional Response, and Cultural Negotiation [microform] : Meanings of a Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Office on Campus. ASHE Annual Meeting Paper / Susan Talburt
- Bib ID:
- 5601738
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Talburt, Susan
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED402838
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- [S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1996
- 38 p.
- Summary:
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This study examined the social and political climate surrounding the opening of a controversial gay/lesbian/bisexual support office at an anonymous midwestern public research university. In addition to analyses of university mission statements, plans, and policies, other "diversity" literature, and campus and local newspapers, fieldwork included twenty interviews with faculty, staff, and students on campus. The study explored the university's view of itself as a liberal island in the midst of a conservative environment. It identified tensions that exist when the stated policy of diversity is not matched by diversity in practice and the inherent contradictions when discourse takes place in an "environment of disacknowledgment." It analyzed some of the rhetoric used in support of and against the establishment of the proposal. It is concluded that significant insights into academic and social change can be gained by paying attention to how the practices of identity politics interact with official policies and practices. (Contains 31 references.) (CH)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (Memphis, TN, October 31 - November 3, 1996).
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Bisexuality
- Civil Rights
- Consciousness Raising
- Diversity (Institutional)
- Educational Discrimination
- Higher Education
- Homophobia
- Homosexuality
- Institutional Environment
- Lesbianism
- Public Opinion
- Qualitative Research
- School Community Relationship
- Self Concept
- Sex Bias
- Sex Discrimination
- Sexism in Language
- Sexual Identity
- Social Change
- Social Support Groups
- Sociocultural Patterns
- Student Personnel Services
- ASHE Annual Meeting Diversity (Student)
- Homosexual Literature
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- ERIC
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- Publication date:
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