1st Edition
Tilting the Tower lesbians/ teaching/ queer subjects
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.
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
