School's Out : Gay and Lesbian Teachers in the Classroom /

School's Out : Gay and Lesbian Teachers in the Classroom / Catherine Connell.

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"How do gay and lesbian teachers grapple with their professional and sexual identities at work, given that these identities are constructed as mutually exclusive, even indeed as mutually opposed? Using rich interview and ethnographic materials from Texas and California, School's Out explor...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Connell, Catherine, 1980- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2015.
©2015.
Subjects:
Homosexuality and education.
Sexual minorities > Education.
Gender identity.
Table of Contents:
  • Pride and professionalism : the dilemmas of gay and lesbian teachers
  • "Like a fox guarding the henhouse" : the history of LGBTs in the teaching profession
  • Splitters, knitters, and quitters : pathways to identity making
  • Dangerous disclosures : the legal, cultural, and embodied considerations of coming out
  • "A bizarre or flamboyant character" : homonormativity in the classroom
  • Racialized discourses of homophobia: using race to predict and discredit discrimination
  • From gay-friendly to queer-friendly : new possibilities for schools.

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