ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an exploration of how one sees a culture of limitation. It details the theoretical perspectives on which this book is based utilising feminist poststructural and Foucauldian understandings of discourse, power, knowledge, subjectivity and agency. These concepts are used to illustrate how limitations are manifested in Australia broadly in relation to gender, and, more specifically in relation to gender and sexuality diversities, and within a complex socio-political and cultural milieu. Although in many ways a culture of limitation is present across other nations, the chapter focuses on the machinations of the Australian context. A culture of limitation and how it operates in relation to gender and sexuality diversity may constitute the manner in which such subjectivities are perceived and treated by others as well as how the subject positions oneself in schooling environments. Legislative changes, to some degree herald, a new era for gender and sexuality diverse communities, yet, the struggle for equal recognition lingers.
