Overview

First published in 1994, Tilting the Tower explores the status of lesbians and lesbian studies in the high school and university classroom and in the academy. Bringing together high school teachers, community college and four-year university professors, graduate students and tenured programme directors, the volume documents the voices, personal experiences, teaching strategies and activist efforts to diversify the curriculum, the classroom and the campus. This book will be of interest to students and teachers of pedagogy, sexuality studies and gender studies.

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Author:   Linda Garber
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032399478

ISBN 10:   1032399473
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   24 February 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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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