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Title: Flaunt It!

Flaunt It!

Queers Organizing for Public Education and Justice

by Therese Quinn (Author) Erica Meiners (Author)
©2009 Textbook X, 134 Pages
Education
Series: Counterpoints, Volume 340

Summary

This groundbreaking book provides examples of on-the-ground organizing and academic activism, drawing attention to the militarization of public schools, the erasure of queer lives at private institutions with anti-gay «lifestyle» statements, and the failure of professional educational organizations to act for social justice. Flaunt It! offers a constructive and timely analysis of the local, felt impact of neoliberal policies on the lives of those most marginal in schools and in communities.

Details

Pages
X, 134
Year
2009
ISBN (Softcover)
9781433102653
Language
English
Keywords
homonormativity professionalism heteronormativity neoliberalism education teacher education. Queer privatization social justice
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2009. X, 134 pp., num. ill.

Biographical notes

Therese Quinn (Author) Erica Meiners (Author)

The Authors: Therese Quinn teaches art education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She sits on the Local School Council of Nicholas Senn High School, is a founding member of Teachers Against Militarized Education (TAME), serves on the advisory board of AERA Chicago, and blogs about urban public (art) education at The Other Eye (http://therese-othereye.blogspot.com). Erica R. Meiners, a Professor of Education and Women’s Studies at Northeastern Illinois University, is the author of Right to be Hostile: Schools, Prisons and the Making of Public Enemies (2007). She participates in a number of local educational justice projects, including teaching and coordinating a high school for formerly incarcerated men and women.

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