Sexing the Teacher - School Sex Scandals and Queer Pedagogies

Informationen zum Autor Sheila L. Cavanagh is an associate professor of sociology at York University. Klappentext A provocative study of public and professional responses to female teacher sex scandals, this book employs queer theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist film theory to examine sensationalized legal cases, including Mary Kay Letourneau, Amy Gehring, and Heather Ingram. Zusammenfassung A provocative study of public and professional responses to female teacher sex scandals! this book employs queer theory! psychoanalysis! and feminist film theory to examine sensationalized legal cases! including Mary Kay Letourneau! Amy Gehring! and Heather Ingram. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments1 Introduction: Queer Pedagogy and Sex Scandals in Education2 Teacher's Pet: Mary Kay Letourneau and Her Fall from Grace in White America3 Upsetting Desires in the Classroom: Annie Markson and the Queer Pedagogy of the Femme Fatale4 Sexing the Teacher: Voyeuristic Pleasure in the Amy Gehring Sex Panic5 Erotic Discipline: Eros, Aggression, and Maternal Pedagogies in the Heather Ingram Case6 Sex in the Lesbian Teacher's Closet: The Hybrid Proliferation of Queers in the Jean Robertson Scandal7 Conclusion: Troubling Methodological Memoirs and Queer Pedagogies of PederastyNotesReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Sheila Cavanagh, Sheila L. Cavanagh
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2008
• EAN: 9780774813754
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1375-4
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Sexuality Studies; Sexuality Studies; Sexuality Stud
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories