Tilting the tower : lesbians, teaching, queer subjects /
edited by Linda Garber.
- xii, 280 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
On being a change agent: teacher as text, homophobia as context -- Explicit instruction: talking sex in the classroom -- The romance of class and queers: academic erotic zones -- Classroom coming out stories: practical strategies for productive self-disclosure -- Small-group pedagogy: consciousness raising in conservative times -- The Pocahontas Paradigm, or will the subaltern please shut up? -- Cultural conflict: introducing the queer in Mexican-American literature classes -- Collaborating with Clio: teaching lesbian history -- There's no place like home? Lesbian studies and the classics -- Straight but not narrow: a gynetic approach to the teaching of lesbian literature -- Heterosexual teacher, lesbian/gay/bisexual text: teaching the sexual other(s) -- Breaking the silence: sexual preference in the composition classroom -- "Type normal like the rest of us": writing, power, and homophobia in the networked composition classroom -- Lesbian/gay role models in the classroom: where are they when you need them? -- Reading, writing, and Rita Mae Brown: lesbian literature in high school -- Out in the curriculum, out in the classroom: teaching history and organizing for change -- Working with queer young people on oppression issues and alliance building -- Forging the future, remembering our roots: building multi-cultural, feminist lesbian and gay studies -- Humanity is not a luxury: some thoughts on a recent passing -- "The very house of difference": toward a more queerly defined multiculturalism -- Moving the pink agenda into the ivory tower: The "Berkeley Guide" to institutionalizing lesbian, gay, and bisexual studies -- Creating a nonhomophobic atmosphere on a college campus -- Tau(gh)t connections: experiences of a "mixed-blood, disabled, lesbian student" -- "Still here": ten years later ... -- Out as a lesbian, out as a Jew: and nothing untoward happened? -- The ins and outs of a lesbian academic -- Queering the profession, or just professionalizing queers? -- Life on the fault line: lesbian resistance to the anti-PC debate -- Gay and lesbian studies: yet another unhappy marriage?.
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Gays in higher education Lesbianism. Gay and lesbian studies. Queer theory.