This book has received the AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award 2013.
With germinal texts, new writings, and related art, Sexualities in Education: A Reader illuminates a broad scope of analysis and organization. Composed of a framing essay and nine sections edited by established and emerging scholars and addressing critical topics for researchers and students of sexualities and education, the text provides a timely overview of sexualities considered through a variety of educational lenses and theoretical frameworks. Threads woven throughout include visual, literary, and performing arts; youth perspectives; and an emphasis on justice work in education. The volume provides entry points for students and practitioners at a range of levels. Research-based articles, essays, interviews, poetry and ready-to-reproduce visual materials from the Americas, Europe, and Asia are linked to a resource section to facilitate deep learning, on-going investigation, and informed action.
Contents: Therese Quinn/Erica R. Meiners: Introduction: Love, Labor, and Learning: Yours in the Struggle – Connie E. North: Introduction: Bending the Terrain: Queer and Justice Issues Infiltrate the Education Map – Elizabeth J. Meyer: From Here to Queer: Mapping Sexualities in Education – Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Sweatshop-Produced Rainbow Flags and Participatory Patriarchy: Why the Gay Rights Movement Is a Sham – Jessica Fields: Differences and Divisions: Social Inequality in Sex Education Debates and Policies – Mel Michelle Lewis: Pedagogy and the Sista’ Professor: Teaching Black Queer Feminist Studies through the Self – Lucy Bailey/Karen Graves: Introduction: Society Can Only Be as Free and Open as Its Schools – Jackie M. Blount: How Sweet It Is! – Catherine A. Lugg: The Religious Right and Public Education: The Paranoid Politics of Homophobia – Warren J. Blumenfeld: «We’re Here and We’re Fabulous»: Contemporary U.S.-American LGBT Youth Activism – Isabel Nuñez: Introduction: Teaching as Whole Self – Carolyn Pajor Ford: White Trash: Manifesting the Bisexual – Becky Atkinson: Apple Jumper, Teacher Babe, and Bland Uniformer Teachers: Fashioning Feminine Teacher Bodies – Eric Rofes: Bound and Gagged: Sexual Silences, Gender Conformity, and the Gay Male Teacher – Jane Gallop: Knot a Love Story – Coya Paz Brownrigg: Paper Machete – Darla Linville: Introduction: Schooling Students in Gender and Sexuality Expectations – Erica M. Boas: Walking the Line: Teaching, Being, and Thinking Sexuality in Elementary School – C.J. Pascoe: Becoming Mr. Cougar: Institutionalizing Heterosexuality and Homophobia at River High – Kathleen O. Elliott: The Right Way to Be Gay: How School Structures Sexual Inequality – Darla Linville: Virtual, Welcoming, Queer, School Community: An Interview with Dave Glick – Jillian Ford: Introduction: Realidadesrealities, Palabraswords, yand Estudiosstudies: LGBTQIQ Youth in Schools – Anneliese A. Singh/Ken Jackson: Queer and Transgender Youth: Education and Liberation in Our Schools – Jane Bryan Meek: «Being Queer Is the Luckiest Thing»: Investigating a New Generation’s Use of Queer within Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Student Groups – Sandra J. Schmidt: Let Me in! The Impact of the Discourse of Impossibility on Research and Curricular (Re)formation – Jukka Lehtonen: Introduction: Crossing Borders – Diane Richardson: Citizenship and Sexuality: What Do We Mean by «Citizenship»? – Roland Sintos Coloma: What’s Queer Got to Do with It? Interrogating Nationalism and Imperialism – Jay Poole/C.P. Gause: Under Construction: Sexualities in Rural Spaces – Peter Dankmeijer: LGBT, to Be or Not to Be? Education about Sexual Preferences and Gender Identities Worldwide – Irina Schmitt: Sexuality, Secularism, and the Nation - Reading Swedish School Policies – Silja Rajander/Phal Sophat: Drama Performances Address Stigma, Discrimination of MSM and HIV/AIDS Prevention – Jukka Lehtonen: Yogyakarta Principles - For the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People – Karyn Sandlos: Introduction: Another Telling Representational Effect – Deborah P. Britzman: Queer Pedagogy and Its Strange Techniques – Francisco Ibáñez-Carrasco: Making the AIDS Ghostwriters Visible – Brian Casemore: «A Different Idea» in the Sex Education Curriculum: Thinking Through the Emotional Experience of Sexuality – Eve Sedgwick: Christmas Effects – Lauren Berlant: Feel Tank – Angel Rubiel Gonzalez: Introduction: Educating to Affirm Life: Sexuality, Politics, and Education – Sam Finkelstein/Lucky Mosqueda/Adrian