June 18, 2007
Pressure Points: Intersections of Homophobia, Heterosexism, and Schooling
by SANDRA SPICKARD PRETTYMAN
...schools are often uncomfortable, if not hostile, environments for students and teachers who identify as or are perceived to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender...
However, we must also recognize the ways in which individual and institutionalized forms of homophobia and heterosexism operate to regulate and police all of our lives, not just those of sexual minorities.
This special issue of Educational Studies is devoted to examining the role of sexuality and sexual diversity in schooling, investigating how homophobia and heterosexism operate in school settings and structure the schooling experiences of all students and teachers.
Abstract: http://www.leaonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00131940701308171
link to Special Complimentary Issue of Educational Studies: A Jrnl of the American Educ. Studies Assoc. 2007, Vol. 41, No. 1,
http://www.leaonline.com/toc/es/41/1
Who's in a Family?
"This is the book that came home in the "Diversity Book Bag" with the Parkers' 5-year-old son in January. The Parkers were shocked and outraged."
[illus. more info. from Mass Resistence\ not above]
Posted by Stubbornson at June 18, 2007 07:25 PM