Not Alone: LGB Teachers Organizations from 1970 to 1985

Author:   Jason Mayernick
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
ISBN:  

9781978825932


Pages:   242
Publication Date:   15 December 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jason Mayernick
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.463kg
ISBN:  

9781978825932


ISBN 10:   1978825935
Pages:   242
Publication Date:   15 December 2023
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Value of Teachers  1 The National Education Association: Teacher Sexuality and Professionalism 2 The American Federation of Teachers: Negotiating National Union Policy 3 The Gay Teachers Association of New York: Community and Relationships 4 California and the Image of LGB Teachers Conclusion: Recurring Themes Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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"""In this important book, Mayernick gives us new insights into LGB teachers organizing for political change in the 1970s and 1980s. Combining educational history, labor history, and LGB history, the book analyzes how teachers actively fought for equal rights at national, state, and local levels.""--Margaret Nash ""professor, University of California, Riverside"" ""Maynerick shows how LGB educators used unions to make it possible to be an openly gay teachers for the first time in the United States. As LGBT people's presence in education faces renewed attacks, Not Alone provides strategies and hope from the past for making schools safer for them today.""--Michael Hevel ""associate professor of Higher Education"""


"""In this important book, Mayernick gives us new insights into LGB teachers organizing for political change in the 1970s and 1980s. Combining educational history, labor history, and LGB history, the book analyzes how teachers actively fought for equal rights at national, state, and local levels."" -- Margaret Nash * professor, University of California, Riverside * ""Maynerick shows how LGB educators used unions to make it possible to be an openly gay teachers for the first time in the United States. As LGBT people’s presence in education faces renewed attacks, Not Alone provides strategies and hope from the past for making schools safer for them today."" -- Michael Hevel * associate professor of Higher Education *"


Author Information

JASON MAYERNICK is an assistant professor of social foundations and leadership education at the University of North Georgia.

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