{"product_id":"a-radical-rethinking-of-sexuality-and-schooling-status-quo-or-status-queer-paperback","title":"A Radical Rethinking of Sexuality and Schooling: Status Quo or Status Queer? - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Rofes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Radical Rethinking of Sexuality and Schooling: Status Quo or Status Queer?\u003c\/i\u003e offers a startling and original critique of unexamined assumptions and liberal notions about sexuality and education in the United States. Professor and long-time community activist Eric Rofes argues that liberal approaches to gay issues and public schooling are inherently doomed to fail and that a radical approach is needed that addresses core issues of power in education in a meaningful way. Tackling issues ranging from anti-gay harassment in school to children's literature on gay themes, gender performances of teachers to HIV education, graduate school programs in education to gay men's sexual cultures, Rofes presents a compelling argument for the creation of a second generation of activism focused on queers, schools, and education, one that truly empowers young people and educators and one that has the potential to truly transform power relations in our nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Rofes\u003c\/b\u003e was one of the first openly gay schoolteachers in the United States and founded one of the first programs for queer youth in Boston in the 1970s. He currently is Associate Professor of Education at Humboldt State University on the coast of Northern California where he teaches a course on queer issues in schools and leads a program that credentials elementary school teachers. A long time gay community activist, he has served as founding chair of the Boston Lesbian \u0026amp; Gay Political Alliance, executive director of the Los Angeles Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Community Services Center, and director of Shanti Project, San Francisco's pioneering AIDS service group. He has published twelve books including \u003ci\u003eSocrates, Plato \u0026amp; Guys Like Me: Confessions of a Gay Schoolteacher\u003c\/i\u003e and, with coeditors Mary Louise Rasmussen and Susan Talburt, \u003ci\u003eYouth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion, and Insubordination In and Out of Schools\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in San Francisco and Arcata, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 180\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9.08 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53054607229152,"sku":"9780742541955","price":104.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/Mbu07vGM7B9780742541955.webp?v=1781299393","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/a-radical-rethinking-of-sexuality-and-schooling-status-quo-or-status-queer-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}