Call for Papers
Radical Teacher issue #65 on Gender and Sexuality
The 2001 Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN) reported that the
nation's public schools remain dangerous places for LGBT youth. Afghan
women are struggling to regain a place in their society and move ahead to
even greater freedoms. These are two fairly clear-cut examples of the
simultaneously static and changing status of gender and sexuality in society
but, after thirty years of Women's Studies and fifteen years of Gay and
Lesbian Studies, how have the ideas of gender and sexuality become even more
complicated and challenging? How are gender and sexuality being taught
today? How can radical pedagogy politicize the teaching of gender and
sexuality? Using these guidelines, we seek articles that address the
teaching of and impact on the changing analytic interpretations of gender
and sexuality and articles that address the intersections of gender and
sexuality, class, race, and ethnicity for a special cluster of Radical
Teacher on Gender and Sexuality. This issue seeks to historicize the
teaching of gender and sexuality and to examine current pedagogical
practices, struggles, gains, and losses. We particularly encourage articles
written about K-12 teaching since these years are often when confusions and
prejudice about gender and sexuality begin.
Some possible topics include:
· Student activism in organizing LGBT organizations and women's groups.
· The relationship between GLBT students and Women's Studies.
· The development of Gender Studies programs.
· What insights have your students had about the difference between their
gender and their sex? What insights have you had, as their teacher, about
your own gender and sexuality?
· Do you have case studies of classroom incidents, classroom responses and
institutional responses to gender and sexuality?
· Has your teaching of gender and sexuality in any way helped you in your
classroom as a bridge to teaching other issues like class, race, and
ethnicity?
· In what ways can teaching gender and sexuality be even more difficult than
teaching race, ethnicity or class? Why?
· Teaching the difference between gender and sexuality.
· Teaching the historically economic foundations for the creation of gender.
· Teaching about transgender and transsexual issues.
· Resolving classroom confrontations involving gender and sexuality. How do
you do it? Any special materials or sources available that you found
helpful?
· Teaching about the historical and contemporary oppression of women.
· Dealing with students who do not follow traditional gender roles.
· Teaching students from backgrounds with varying gender standards.
Send proposals or full articles to J. Elizabeth Clark at
lclark@lagcc.cuny.edu or Erica Rand at erand@bates.edu or hard copy to
Leonard Vogt at 19-19 21 Road, Astoria, NY 11105. Proposals are welcome
before our deadline of May 1, 2002, after which we will only accept full
articles.
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J. Elizabeth Clark, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of English
Fiorello H. LaGuardia Community College
The City University of New York
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