Tilting the Tower

New Preface Introduction 1. On Being a Change Agent: Teacher as Text, Homophobia as Context 2. Explicit Instruction: Talking Sex in the Classroom 3. The Romance of Class and Queers: Academic Erotic Zones 4. Classroom Coming Out Stories: Practical Strategies for Productive Self-Disclosure 5. Small-Group Pedagogy: Consciousness Raising in Conservative Times 6. The Pocahontas Paradigm, or Will the Subaltern Please Shut Up? 7. Cultural Conflict: Introducing the Queer in Mexican-American Literature 8. Collaborating with Clio: Teaching Lesbian History 9. There's No Place Like Home? Lesbian Studies and the Classics 10. Straight but Not Narrow: A Gynetic Approach to the Teaching of Lesbian Literature 11. Heterosexual Teacher, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Text: Teaching the Sexual Other(s) 12. Breaking the Silence: Sexual Preference in the Composition Classroom 13. "Type Normal like the Rest of Us": Writing, Power, and Homophobia in the Networked Composition Classroom 14. Lesbian/ Gay Role Models in the Classroom: Where Are They When You Need Them? 15. Reading, Writing, and Rita Mae Brown: Lesbian Literature in High School 16. Out in the Curriculum, Out in the Classroom: Teaching History and Organizing for Change 17. Working with Queer Young People on Oppression Issues and Alliance Building 18. Forging the Future, Remembering Our Roots: Building Multicultural, Feminist Lesbian and Gay Studies 19. Humanity Is Not a Luxury: Some Thoughts on a Recent Passing 20. "The Very House of Difference": Toward a More Queerly Defined Multiculturalism 21. Moving the Pink Agenda into the Ivory Tower: The "Berkeley Guide" to Institutionalizing Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies 22. Creating a Nonhomophobic Atmosphere on a College Campus 23. Tau(gh)t Connections: Experiences of a "Mixed-Blood, Disabled, Lesbian Student" 24. "Still Here": Ten Years Later... 25. Out as a Lesbian, Out as a Jew: And Nothing Untoward Happened? 26. The Ins and Outs of a Lesbian Academic 27. Queering the Profession, or Just Professionalizing Queers 28. Life on the Fault Line: Lesbian Resistance to the Anti-PC Debate 29. Gay and Lesbian Studies: Yet Another Unhappy Marriage? Contributors