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Article: Queering seduction: eros and the erotic in the construction of gay teacher identity.(Viewpoint essay)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Men's Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
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This article situates itself in cross-disciplinary work that combines research into my own teaching practice, and my own conflicted identity as a gay man (my "queer locatedness" as Grace, 2000, calls it), with more traditional elements of media studies and critical pedagogy. The circle around this reflection is defined by ruminations on the relationship between Eros and the erotic, media representations of teachers, and morality and mortality in male identity and pedagogy.
For rhetorical purposes Aristotle configured intense pleasure into two peaks: sexual intercourse and thought. (1) This classic split between mind and body still permeates cultural discourse and ...