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How might people respond if a teacher called a boy ‘bitchy’? Perhaps because of an assumed biological constructed ‘irrefutability’ concerning sex (Butler 1993; 1999), experienced representations of the extended body are particularly vulnerable to influence by ‘heteronormativity’: the pressure caused by stereotypical normative assumptions about how gender should represent itself in a person.
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Carlile, A. (2013). ‘BITCHY GIRLS AND SILLY BOYS’. In: Permanent Exclusion from School and Institutional Prejudice. Studies in Inclusive Education, vol 20. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-182-5_5
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