Fit to Teach: Same-sex Desire, Gender, And School Work in the Twentieth Century
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (787 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0791462684 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 242 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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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.. Jackie M. 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. 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
Jackie M. Blount is a Professor in the School of Educational Policy and Leadership at the Ohio State University and the author of Destined to Rule the Schools: Women and the Superintendency, 1873 1995, also published by SUNY Press."
This is a groundbreaking book." . The author makes a convincing case for our need to know and begins to suggest the policy implications and pedagogical implications of the possession of such knowledge. This work taps into an area that, collectively, we (educators and the society at large) know very little about. "The author's use and description of 'same-sex desire' allows for an entire reframing of significant questions related to the history and sociology of education
"Blount Breathes Life into Hidden Histories" according to Kayt Sunwood. Although a great deal of the "history" Blount uncovers and recounts in this significant volume has transpired in the last Blount Breathes Life into Hidden Histories Although a great deal of the "history" Blount uncovers and recounts in this significant volume has transpired in the last 30 years (the lifetimes and school times of many of us) the people and the issues that she chronicles have been absent in our lessons and conversations within and about schools and schooling. Blount's book is a welcome awakening to the hidden histories and erased identities of students and school wor. 0 years (the lifetimes and school times of many of us) the people and the issues that she chronicles have been absent in our lessons and conversations within and about schools and schooling. Blount's book is a welcome awakening to the hidden histories and erased identities of students and school wor. Making the invisible visible Sine Anahita This is the most important book yet written about same-sex desire and the institution of education in the US. Blount describes in rich detail how schools have attempted to control the sexuality of their workers--and how school workers have resisted. The research for the book is impressive: Blount traveled widely throughout the US to access archives and other original sources. The book is sure to stimulate a wide range o