Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century
Examines the construction of gender in public school employment.
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Jackie M. Blount offers a history of school workers in the United States who have desired persons of the same sex as well as those who have transgressed conventional gender bounds. Despite recent impressive social and political gains for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons, schools remain a zone of great vulnerability for the larger LGBT movement. This thoroughly researched, vivid, and engaging book details the largely untold story of how this state of affairs developed during the twentieth century. It also profiles some of the remarkable people who have risked their careers by brilliantly organizing for LGBT rights, openly challenging discriminatory laws and practices, and educating their communities about conditions for LGBT school workers and students alike.Author Biography: Jackie M. Blount is Professor of Historical, Philosophical, and Comparative Studies in Education at Iowa State University and the author of Destined to Rule the Schools: Women and the Superintendency, 18731995, also published by SUNY Press.
1The gender and sexual transformation of school work122Passing through that phase of homosexuality293A spinster's profession454A rising threat595The new moral menace to our youth806Sometimes you just have to take a stand1087How sweet it is!1358By the students156
