Research Catalog

Title

Tilting the tower : lesbians teaching queer subjects / edited by Linda Garber.

Publication

New York, : Routledge, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

Garber, Linda

Description

xii, 280 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Lesbianism
• United States
• Lesbianism
• Women's studies
• Gay and lesbian studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• On being a change agent : teacher as text, homophobia as context -- Explicit instruction : talking sex in the classroom -- The romance of class and queers: academic erotic zones -- Classroom coming out stories : practical strategies for productive self-disclosure -- Small-group pedagogy : consciousness raising in conservative times -- The Pocahontas Paradigm, or will the subaltern please shut up? -- Cultural conflict : introducing the queer in Mexican-American literature classes -- Collaborating with Clio : teaching lesbian history -- There's no place like home? : Lesbian studies and the classics -- Straight but not narrow : a gynetic approach to the teaching of lesbian literature -- Heterosexual teacher, lesbian/gay/bisexual text : teaching the sexual other(s) -- Breaking the silence : sexual preference in the composition classroom -- "Type normal like the rest of us" : writing, power, and homophobia in the networked composition classroom -- Lesbian/gay role models in the classroom : where are they when you need them?
• Reading, writing, and Rita Mae Brown : lesbian literature in high school -- Out in the curriculum, out in the classroom : teaching history and organizing for change -- Working with queer young people on oppression issues and alliance building -- Forging the future, remembering our roots : building multi-cultural, feminist lesbian and gay studies -- Humanity is not a luxury : some thoughts on a recent passing -- "The very house of difference" : toward a more queerly defined multiculturalism -- Moving the pink agenda into the ivory tower : The "Berkeley Guide" to institutionalizing lesbian, gay, and bisexual studies -- Creating a nonhomophobic atmosphere on a college campus -- Tau(gh)t connections : experiences of a "mixed-blood, disabled, lesbian student" -- "Still here" : ten years later... -- Out as a lesbian, out as a Jew: and nothing untoward happened? -- The ins and outs of a lesbian academic -- Queering the profession, or just professionalizing queers? -- Life on the fault line : lesbian resistance to the anti-PC debate -- Gay and lesbian studies : yet another unhappy marriage?

Call Number

JFE 95-13570

ISBN

• 041590840X (HB)
• 0415908418 (PB)

LCCN

94008048 //r95

OCLC

30079038

Title

Tilting the tower : lesbians teaching queer subjects / edited by Linda Garber.

Imprint

New York, : Routledge, 1994.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed Term

Lesbianism

United States

Added Author

Garber, Linda.

Research Call Number

JFE 95-13570