Fit to Teach: Same-Sex Desire, Gender, and School Work in the Twentieth Century

by Jackie M. Blount

Book Overview

Jackie M. Blount offers a history of school workers in the United States who have desired persons of the same sex as well as those who have transgressed conventional gender bounds. Despite recent impressive social and political gains for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons, schools remain a zone of great vulnerability for the larger LGBT movement. This thoroughly researched, vivid, and engaging book details the largely untold story...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791462676
• ISBN13: 9780791462676
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"