Tilting the Tower

New York: Routledge, 1994. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Black octavo, gilt to spine, xii, 280 pages, 23 cm. Extremely gentle rubbing to spine head and foot, light spotting and soiling to fore-edges, exceedingly mild rubbing to corners, barcode sticker to rear board, faint soiling to boards, else Near Fine(+). Hardcover. ISBN: 041590840X

Scarce in cloth. No DJ. "Tilitng the Tower explores the status of lesbians and lesbian studies in the high school and university classroom and in the academy. Bringing together high school teachers, community college and four-year university professors, graduate students and tenured program directors, the volume documents the voices, personal experiences, teaching strategies and activist efforts to diversify the curriculum, the classroom and the campus." --From back cover. Contents: On being a change agent: teacher as text, homophobia as context -- Explicit instruction: talking sex in the classroom -- The romance of class and queers: academic erotic zones -- Classroom coming out stories: practical strategies for productive self-disclosure -- Small-group pedagogy: consciousness raising in conservative times -- The Pocahontas Paradigm, or will the subaltern please shut up? -- Cultural conflict: introducing the queer in Mexican-American literature classes -- Collaborating with Clio: teaching lesbian history -- There's no place like home? Lesbian studies and the classics -- Straight but not narrow: a gynetic approach to the teaching of lesbian literature -- Heterosexual teacher, lesbian/gay/bisexual text: teaching the sexual other(s) -- Breaking the silence: sexual preference in the composition classroom -- "Type normal like the rest of us": writing, power, and homophobia in the networked composition classroom -- Lesbian/gay role models in the classroom: where are they when you need them?Reading, writing, and Rita Mae Brown: lesbian literature in high school -- Out in the curriculum, out in the classroom: teaching history and organizing for change -- Working with queer young people on oppression issues and alliance building -- Forging the future, remembering our roots: building multi-cultural, feminist lesbian and gay studies -- Humanity is not a luxury: some thoughts on a recent passing -- "The very house of difference": toward a more queerly defined multiculturalism -- Moving the pink agenda into the ivory tower: The "Berkeley Guide" to institutionalizing lesbian, gay, and bisexual studies -- Creating a nonhomophobic atmosphere on a college campus -- Tau(gh)t connections: experiences of a "mixed-blood, disabled, lesbian student" -- "Still here": ten years later ... -- Out as a lesbian, out as a Jew: and nothing untoward happened? -- The ins and outs of a lesbian academic -- Queering the profession, or just professionalizing queers? -- Life on the fault line: lesbian resistance to the anti-PC debate -- Gay and lesbian studies: yet another unhappy marriage? Lesbianism, Women's studies.