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In the first in-depth treatment of the foundational legal case
Marjorie Rowland v. Mad River School District, authors Margaret A. Nash and Karen L. Graves tell the story of that case and of Marjorie Rowland, the pioneer who fought for employment rights for LGBTQ educators and who paid a heavy price for that fight. It brings the story of LGBTQ educators’ rights to the present, including commentary on
Bostock v Clayton County, the 2020 Supreme Court case that struck down employment discrimination against LGBT workers.
List of contents
Preface
1 Staking a Claim in Mad River
2 "I Had to Be the Fighter"
3 The Meaning of Mad River: Implications of the Case
4 "Coming Out of the Classroom Closet": LGBTQ Teachers' Lives after Mad River
5 Movements Forward and Back
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
MARGARET A. NASH is professor emerita in the School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. She is the editor of Women's Higher Education in the United States: New Historical Perspectives and the author of Women's Education in the United States, 1780-1840.
KAREN L. GRAVES recently retired from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where she was professor in the Department of Education. She is the author of And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida's Purge of Gay and Lesbian Teachers and a coeditor of Inexcusable Omissions: Clarence Karier and the Critical Tradition in History of Education Scholarship.
Summary
Addresses an important legal case that set the stage for today’s LGBTQ civil rights - a case that almost no one has heard of. This first in-depth treatment of this foundational legal case tells the story of that case and of Marjorie Rowland, the pioneer who fought for employment rights for LGBTQ educators and who paid a heavy price for that fight.
