Michel Foucault and Sexualities and Genders in Education

David Lee Carlson is Associate Professor of Qualitative Research in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University, USA. His current research focuses on the ways in which the post-qualitative movement continues to problematize the onto-epistemology of research methodologies.Nelson M. Rodriguez is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at The College of New Jersey, USA. His current research areas span queer studies and education, critical masculinity studies, and Foucault studies.

“For researchers, the collection provides insightful theoretical backing for research on school and university cultures in which ascesis presents or absents itself. Further, the essays thoughtfully consider the ways in which ascesis as friendship may disrupt existing heteronormative dynamics or potentially reenact exclusionary practices.” (Christian G.Gregory, Journal of LGBT Youth, August 31, 2021)

• 1. Foucault, Friendship, and Education.- 2. #NoHomo: Men's Friendships, or "Something Else".- 3. Intimacy and Access: Clone Culture, Exclusion, and the Politics of Friendship.- 4. Queer Ascesis and the Invention of New Games.- 5. Transcendent Friendship: The Potential of Foucault's Ascesis to Subvert School Gender Regimes and Facilitate Learning.- 6. Gender and Sexual Minority Faculty Negotiating "A Way of Life": Friendships and Support within the Academy.- 7. Gay Ascesis: Ethics of Strategic Disorientation and the Pedagogies of Friendship.- 8. Befriending Foucault as a Way of Life.- 9. Deep Friendship at a Sausage Party: A Foucauldian Reading of Friendship, Fractured Masculinities and their Potential for School Practices.- 10. Michel Foucault and Queer Ascesis: Toward a Pedagogy and Politics of Subversive Friendships.