Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Blount, Jackie M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791462676 ISBN 13: 9780791462676

Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Examines the construction of gender in public school employment.

Jackie M. 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. 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. 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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

"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. This work taps into an area that, collectively, we (educators and the society at large) know very little about. 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 is a groundbreaking book."

About this edition

• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0791462676
• ISBN 13: 9780791462676
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 229