%0 Journal Article
%T Queering Intersectional Literacies to Redefine Female Sexualities: A Case Study
%A Stephanie Anne Shelton
%J Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice
%@ 2381-3377
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/2381336918786737
%X Based on a 1-year interview-based case study of a preservice English teacher, this article considers the limitations of both intersectional literacies and reader-based responses to texts. In an effort to address students¡¯ problematic discussions of female sexuality, the participant implemented a queer pedagogy that emphasized alterity, or the examination of ¡°other,¡± while pushing students into spaces of discomfort and uncertainty. Using Chaucer¡¯s ¡°Wife of Bath¡¯s Tale¡± as the basis of her approach, the teacher and her students¡¯ engagement with literacy practices necessarily shifted when they began to interrogate cultural norms and sites of uneasiness in relation to school-mandated texts. The article concludes with a discussion of the ways that literacy practices are necessarily and constantly mediated through sociopolitical contexts and personal understandings, though readers¡¯ individual perspectives cannot be the sole basis of reading practices
%K queer theory
%K queer pedagogy
%K queer literacy
%K secondary education
%K English education
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2381336918786737