Susan W. Woolley

List of John Benjamins publications in which Susan W. Woolley is involved.

Article

Woolley, Susan W. 2013 Speech that silences, silences that speak: “That’s so gay,” “that’s so ghetto,” and safe space in High School Journal of Language and Sexuality 2:2, pp. 292–319 | Article

This article questions what happens to “safe space” in classrooms when students are marginalized by their social locations and identities. Based on three years of ethnographic research in a Northern California urban public high school, the author examines how language like “that’s so gay” and… read more