Queer Theory in Education

Brings together the most prominent and promising scholars in the field of education in the first volume on queer theory in education.

William F. Pinar

Contents: W.F. Pinar, Introduction. W.G. Tierney, P. Dilley, Constructing Knowledge: Educational Research and Gay and Lesbian Studies. J.T. Sears, A Generational and Theoretical Analysis of Culture and Male (Homo) Sexuality. D. Carlson, Who Am I? Gay Identity and a Democratic Politics of the Self. E. Meiners, Remember When All the Cars Were Fords and All the Lesbians Were Women? Some Notes on Identity, Mobility, and Capital. S. Luhmann, Queering/Querying Pedagogy? Or, Pedagogy Is a Pretty Queer Thing. R. Walcott, Queer Texts and Performativity: Zora, Rap, and Community. N. Rodriquez, (Queer) Youth as Political and Pedagogical. S.R. Steinberg, Appropriating Queerness: Hollywood Sanitation. D. Sumara, B. Davis, Telling Tales of Surprise. W.F. Pinar, Understanding Curriculum as Gender Text: Notes on Reproduction, Resistance, and Male-Male Relations. S. de Castell, M. Bryson, From the Ridiculous to the Sublime: On Finding Oneself in Educational Research. K.G. Honeychurch, Carnal Knowledge: Re-Searching (Through) the Sexual Body. M. Morris, Unresting the Curriculum: Queer Projects, Queer Imaginings. M.A. Doll, Queering the Gaze. A.J. Pitt, Fantasizing Women in the Women's Studies Classroom: Toward a Symptomatic Reading of Negation. D.P. Britzman, On Some Psychical Consequences of AIDS Education. R. Platizky, We Were Already Ticking and Didn't Even Know [It]: Early AIDS Works. W. Haver, Of Mad Men Who Practice Invention to the Brink of Intelligibility. J.L. Miller, Autobiography as a Queer Curriculum Practice.