Status Quo or Status Queer?: A Radical Rethinking of Sexuality and Schooling (Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities Series)
A Radical Rethinking of Sexuality and Schooling: Status Quo or Status Queer? offers a startling and original critique of unexamined assumptions and liberal notions about sexuality and education in the United States. Professor and long-time community activist Eric Rofes argues that liberal approaches to gay issues and public schooling are inherently doomed to fail and that a radical approach is needed that addresses core issues of power in education in a meaningful way. Tackling issues ranging...
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A Radical Rethinking of Sexuality and Schooling offers a startling and original critique of unexamined assumptions and liberal notions about sexuality and education in the United States. Tackling issues ranging from anti-gay harassment in school to children's literature on gay themes, gender performances of teachers to HIV education, graduate school programs in education to gay men's sexual cultures, Eric Rofes presents a compelling argument for the creation of a second generation of activism focused on queers, schools, and education.
Chapter 1 Beyond the Bruising Sites of Boyhood Chapter 2 Candy from Strangers: Queer Teachers and the (Im)Moral Development of Children Chapter 3 Rethinking Anti-Gay Harassment in Schools Chapter 4 Innocence, Perversion, and Heather's Two Mommies Chapter 5 Queers, Education Schools, and Sex Panic Chapter 6 Bound and Gagged: Sexual Silences, Gender Conformity, and the Gay Male Teacher Chapter 7 Desires as Defiance: Transgressions, Risk Taking, and Resistance to Safe-Sex Education Chapter 8 Toward a Radical Rethinking of Education, Schooling, and Sexuality
\ Myers Book CommentaryWoven with rich personal accounts, and mingled with feminist, queer and educational theory, this book is readable, intense, and original.\ \
