1st Edition
Tilting the Tower lesbians/ teaching/ queer subjects
New Preface Introduction 1. On Being a Change Agent: Teacher as Text, Homophobia as Context Mary L. Mittler and Amy Blumenthal 2. Explicit Instruction: Talking Sex in the Classroom Wendy Chapkis 3. The Romance of Class and Queers: Academic Erotic Zones Michele Aina Barale 4. Classroom Coming Out Stories: Practical Strategies for Productive Self-Disclosure Kate Adams and Kim Emery 5. Small-Group Pedagogy: Consciousness Raising in Conservative Times Estelle B. Freedman 6. The Pocahontas Paradigm, or Will the Subaltern Please Shut Up? Maia Ettinger 7. Cultural Conflict: Introducing the Queer in Mexican-American Literature Classes Maria C. Gonzalez 8. Collaborating with Clio: Teaching Lesbian History Cynthia D. Nieb 9. There’s No Place Like Home? Lesbian Studies and the Classics Ann Pellegrini 10. Straight but Not Narrow: A Gynetic Approach to the Teaching of Lesbian Literature Sally L. Kitch 11. Heterosexual Teacher, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Text: Teaching the Sexual Other(s) AnnLouise Keating 12. Breaking the Silence: Sexual Preference in the Composition Classroom Allison Berg, Jean Jowaleski, Caroline Le Guin, Ellen Weinauer, Eric A. Wolfe 13. "Type Normal like the Rest of Us": Writing, Power, and Homophobia in the Networked Composition Classroom Alison Regan 14. Lesbian/ Gay Role Models in the Classroom: Where Are They When You Need Them? Janet Pollak 15. Reading, Writing, and Rita Mae Brown: Lesbian Literature in High School Nancy Boutilier 16. Out in the Curriculum, Out in the Classroom: Teaching History and Organizing for Change Barbara Blinick 17. Working with Queer Young People on Oppression Issues and Alliance Building Donna Keiko Ozawa 18. Forging the Future, Remembering Our Roots: Building Multicultural, Feminist Lesbian and Gay Studies Merle Woo 19. Humanity Is Not a Luxury: Some Thoughts on a Recent Passing Sharon P. Holland 20. "The Very House of Difference": Toward a More Queerly Defined Multiculturalism Polly Pagenhart 21. Moving the Pink Agenda into the Ivory Tower: The "Berkeley Guide" to Institutionalizing Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies Alisa Klinger 22. Creating a Nonhomophobic Atmosphere on a College Campus Nancy Stoller 23. Tau(gh)t Connections: Experiences of a "Mixed-Blood, Disabled, Lesbian Student" Anneliese Truame 24. "Still Here": Ten Years Later… doris davenport 25. Out as a Lesbian, Out as a Jew: And Nothing Untoward Happened? Evelyn Torton Beck 26. The Ins and Outs of a Lesbian Academic Mary Klages 27. Queering the Profession, or Just Professionalizing Queers Sarah Chinn 28. Life on the Fault Line: Lesbian Resistance to the Anti-PC Debate Toni A. H. McNaron 29. Gay and Lesbian Studies: Yet Another Unhappy Marriage? Jacquelyn N. Zita Contributors
Biography
Linda Garber
