Rethinking Sexual Identity In Education
Responding to wide-spread abuse of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning persons (LGBTQs) in education, Rethinking Sexual Identity in Education examines the heterosexism inherent in both educational theory and practice, conceptualizing as mis-educative compulsory heterosexuality's stigmatization of "out" LGBTQs as outsiders. Reflecting upon the Outsiders' Society Virginia Woolf envisioned in Three Guineas (1938) for daughters of educated men, this work re-names and re-conceives...
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Rethinking Sexual Identity in Education responds to the wide-spread abuse of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning persons (LGBTQs) in diverse educational environments by utilizing published narratives of LGBTQs' educational experiences. Conceptualizing a praxis for LGBTQ allies to use in teaching and learning about sexual identity in ways that can transform educational practices and policies, this work bridges gaps between theory and practice, liberal and postmodern thought, invention and intervention.
PrefaceCh. 1Compulsory heterosexuality as mis-education1Ch. 2The Praxes in re sexual identity31Ch. 3Woolf, with attitude81Ch. 4Problematizing the Praxes in re sexual identity95Ch. 5Envisioning an Out-sider's praxis137Annotated bibliography : sources containing autobiographical interviews and accounts of lesbian and gay educational experiences181
\ Teachers College RecordRethinking Sexual Identity in Education offers food for thought for advocates of identity politics, social constructionists, activists, postmodernists and good old-fashioned liberals—for all of us who need to think both theoretically and practically.\ \
