Tilting the Tower: lesbians/ teaching/ queer subjects

Author:   Linda Garber
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032399515


Pages:   298
Publication Date:   30 December 2024
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Linda Garber
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9781032399515


ISBN 10:   1032399511
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   30 December 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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New Preface Introduction 1. On Being a Change Agent: Teacher as Text, Homophobia as Context 2. Explicit Instruction: Talking Sex in the Classroom 3. The Romance of Class and Queers: Academic Erotic Zones 4. Classroom Coming Out Stories: Practical Strategies for Productive Self-Disclosure 5. Small-Group Pedagogy: Consciousness Raising in Conservative Times 6. The Pocahontas Paradigm, or Will the Subaltern Please Shut Up? 7. Cultural Conflict: Introducing the Queer in Mexican-American Literature 8. Collaborating with Clio: Teaching Lesbian History 9. There’s No Place Like Home? Lesbian Studies and the Classics 10. Straight but Not Narrow: A Gynetic Approach to the Teaching of Lesbian Literature 11. Heterosexual Teacher, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Text: Teaching the Sexual Other(s) 12. Breaking the Silence: Sexual Preference in the Composition Classroom 13. ""Type Normal like the Rest of Us"": Writing, Power, and Homophobia in the Networked Composition Classroom 14. Lesbian/ Gay Role Models in the Classroom: Where Are They When You Need Them? 15. Reading, Writing, and Rita Mae Brown: Lesbian Literature in High School 16. Out in the Curriculum, Out in the Classroom: Teaching History and Organizing for Change 17. Working with Queer Young People on Oppression Issues and Alliance Building 18. Forging the Future, Remembering Our Roots: Building Multicultural, Feminist Lesbian and Gay Studies 19. Humanity Is Not a Luxury: Some Thoughts on a Recent Passing 20. ""The Very House of Difference"": Toward a More Queerly Defined Multiculturalism 21. Moving the Pink Agenda into the Ivory Tower: The ""Berkeley Guide"" to Institutionalizing Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies 22. Creating a Nonhomophobic Atmosphere on a College Campus 23. Tau(gh)t Connections: Experiences of a ""Mixed-Blood, Disabled, Lesbian Student"" 24. ""Still Here"": Ten Years Later… 25. Out as a Lesbian, Out as a Jew: And Nothing Untoward Happened? 26. The Ins and Outs of a Lesbian Academic 27. Queering the Profession, or Just Professionalizing Queers 28. Life on the Fault Line: Lesbian Resistance to the Anti-PC Debate 29. Gay and Lesbian Studies: Yet Another Unhappy Marriage? Contributors

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