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First published in 1994,
Tilting the Tower explores the status of lesbians and lesbian studies in the high school and university classroom and in the academy.
List of contents
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?
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