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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Lori Horvitz |
| ISBN: | 9781433110979 1433110970 9781433110986 1433110989 |
| OCLC Number: | 681503957 |
| Description: | ix, 181 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / Lori Horvitz -- Of Quarterbacks and Quarantine / Carol Guess -- Personal, Political, Pedagogical, Performative, and Praxis : Queer in the Classroom : Five Not-So-Easy Pieces / Lee Ann Roripaugh -- The Personal as Productive? : Sexual Embodiment and Identity in the Women's Studies Classroom / Michelle Spiegel -- Dear Diary : A Narrative Journal of My First Years as a 'Fag Teacher' / Stacy Fox -- Hey Virginia : What's the Writing on the Wall? / Jennifer Smith -- From Classroom to Family / Sassafras Lowrey -- The Queerosphere : Musings on Queer Studies and Creative Writing Classrooms (On Poetry, Creativity, and the Fleetingness of Things) / Maureen Seaton -- My Battle Armor / Liz Matelski -- We Weren't Queer Yet / Laura M. André -- Mr. Short Hair / Jessica Gardner -- The Week Matthew Shepard Died / Bonnie J. Morris -- Learning to Be in a Skin / Sarah B. Burghauser -- "Who Do I Have to Forgive to Move on from this Place?" : Meditations from a Third World Feminist Lesbian / Kristie Soares -- Transitions / Lori Horvitz -- Dr. 'Strange'love, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Loving (in) the Classroom Closet / Jules Odendaul-James -- Toward a Practice of Humility / Mara Hughes -- A Teacher's Lesson / Lissa Brown -- Physical Education / Cynthia Tyler -- Teaching Out / B.J. Epstein -- "Imagine My Surprise!" : Being Out as a Lesbian Teacher, 1990-2000 / Barbara DiBernard -- Definition / Sandy Woodson -- Playing with Gender for College Credit : Experiencing Gender, Sex and Sexuality / Anne Balay -- What My Women's College Taught Me about Being Enthusiastically Queer / Shannon Weber -- Teacher Coming Out to Teachers / Mary Clare Powell -- Troubling the Coming-Out Discourse : The (Non) Outing of My Buzz Cut / Anne Stebbins -- The Two-Step / Holly St. Jean. |
| Series Title: | Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.), v. 397. |
| Responsibility: | Lori Horvitz, editor. |
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Move over 'Maedchen in Uniform'! This collection takes us inside the classroom and offers wit, pathos, and wisdom from a diverse group of 'queer girls' who get schooled there. Find answers to the questions that don't show up on any standardized tests: What's behind the teacher's enigmatic looks? Who's that girl over in the back row by the window? Am I the only one? A brave and smart book, filled with invaluable lessons for life. (Audrey Bilger, Faculty Director of the Writing Center and Associate Professor of Literature, Claremont McKenna College) Myriad voices tumble across the pages of this collection. From urban high school teachers, to lone lesbians in rural counties, to Queer Studies professors at elite colleges, these stories testify to the courage, uncertainties and risks lesbian and bisexual educators face as they find ways to teach openly (to varying degrees) in the classroom. For all of us who have known that woman, been that woman, or hoped to someday become her, this is a worthwhile read. (Nancy Wadsworth, Queer Faculty Alliance Chair and Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Denver) The contributors to 'Queer Girls in Class' demonstrate that just because there may be queer content in the course curriculum does not mean it's easy for actual queer women - teachers or students - to thrive in the classroom. Decades after the first gender studies classes appeared in universities, the essays in this cogent collection prove there's still a lot of work to do. Many of the contributors offer helpful and insightful strategies for combating homophobia, whether it comes from other students, the faculty, or the administration and approaches that might be applied to any setting in which people of different backgrounds and belief systems interact. (Terry Wolverton, author, 'Insurgent Muse: Life and Art at the Woman's Building') Read more...
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