Tilting the tower Book

	Introduction
1	On Being a Change Agent: Teacher as Text, Homophobia as Context	3
2	Explicit Instruction: Talking Sex in the Classroom	11
3	The Romance of Class and Queers: Academic Erotic Zones	16
4	Classroom Coming Out Stories: Practical Strategies for Productive Self-Disclosure	25
5	Small-Group Pedagogy: Consciousness Raising in Conservative Times	35
6	The Pocahontas Paradigm, or Will the Subaltern Please Shut Up?	51
7	Cultural Conflict: Introducing the Queer in Mexican-American Literature Classes	56
8	Collaborating with Clio: Teaching Lesbian History	63
9	There's No Place like Home? Lesbian Studies and the Classics	70
10	Straight but Not Narrow: A Gynetic Approach to the Teaching of Lesbian Literature	83
11	Heterosexual Teacher, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Text: Teaching the Sexual Other(s)	96
12	Breaking the Silence: Sexual Preference in the Composition Classroom	108
13	"Type Normal like the Rest of Us": Writing, Power, and Homophobia in the Networked Composition Classroom	117
14	Lesbian/Gay Role Models in the Classroom: Where Are They When You Need Them?	131
15	Reading, Writing, and Rita Mae Brown: Lesbian Literature in High School	135
16	Out in the Curriculum, Out in the Classroom: Teaching History and Organizing for Change	142
17	Working with Queer Young People on Oppression Issues and Alliance Building	150
18	Forging the Future, Remembering Our Roots: Building Multicultural, Feminist Lesbian and Gay Studies	163
19	Humanity Is Not a Luxury: Some Thoughts on a Recent Passing	168
20	"The Very House of Difference": Toward a More Queerly Defined Multiculturalism	177
21	Moving the Pink Agenda into the Ivory Tower: The "Berkeley Guide" to Institutionalizing Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Studies	186
22	Creating a Nonhomophobic Atmosphere on a College Campus	198
23	Tau(gh)t Connections: Experiences of a "Mixed-Blood, Disabled, Lesbian Student"	208
24	"Still Here": Ten Years Later . . .	215
25	Out as a Lesbian, Out as a Jew: And Nothing Untoward Happened?	227
26	The Ins and Outs of a Lesbian Academic	235
27	Queering the Profession, or Just Professionalizing Queers?	243
28	Life on the Fault Line: Lesbian Resistance to the Anti-PC Debate	251
29	Gay and Lesbian Studies: Yet Another Unhappy Marriage?	258
	Contributors	277