Gender and Sexualities in Education

Contents: Wayne Martino: Masculinities, Gender Non-Conformity, and the Significance of Queer and Transgender Perspectives in Education - Kevin Burke: Impossible Women: Saints, Sinners, and the Gendered Mythology in a Catholic School - Darius D. Prier: Schooling the Gendered Politics of Masculine Scripts in Black Popular Culture - Mary Lou Rasmussen: Taking Homophobia's Measure - Jennifer C. Ingrey: The Heterotopic Washroom in School Space: Binary Gender Confirmed, or No Place of One's Own? - Reta Ugena Whitlock: LGBT Families and Southern Schools: Thinking About People, Place, and Education - M. Sue Crowley: Defining Themselves: LGBQS Youth Online - Alfred Masinire: Becoming a Responsible Boy: Contesting Masculinity in Rural Zimbabwe - Elizabeth J. Meyer: Masculinities on The O.C.: A Critical Analysis of Representations of Gender - Kristen V. Luschen: Survival, Protection, and Forgiveness: Examining Gendered Violence and Care in The Hunger Games Trilogy - Pamela K. Smith: Social Media Go Gaga: Mother's Little Helper for Feeding Her Little Monsters - Alyssa D. Niccolini: Spicing Up the Curriculum: The Uses and Pleasures of Erotica Noir in the Urban Classroom - Dennis Carlson: The Bully Curriculum: Gender, Sexualities, and the New Authoritarian Populism in Education - Joseph G. Kosciw/Emily A. Greytak/Mark J. Bartkiewicz: Failing Progress: Changes in School Climate for LGBT Youth Over Time - Bethy Leonardi/Lauren P. Saenz: Conceptualizing Safety From the Inside Out: Heteronormative Spaces and Their Effects on Students' Sense of Self - sj Miller/James R. Gilligan: Heteronormative Harassment: Queer Bullying and Gender-Non-Conforming Students - Mel B. Freitag: Safety in Unity: One School's Story of Identity and Community - Jennifer Bryan: Tomboys, Sissies, and «That's So Gay»: Exploring Gender and Sexuality Diversity in Early Childhood and Elementary Education - Karleen Pendleton Jiménez: Off the Script: A Study of Techniques for Uncovering Gender-Bending Truths in the

Elizabeth J. Meyer is an assistant professor in the School of Education at California Polytechnic State University. She completed her PhD in culture and values in education at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and her MA in social foundations of education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Gender, Bullying and Harassment: Strategies to End Sexism and Homophobia in Schools (2009) and Gender and Sexual Diversity in Schools (2010), and her research has been published in many academic journals including Gender and Education, Journal of LGBT Youth, Computers and Education, The Clearing House, Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies, and Learning Landscapes.
Dennis Carlson is a professor of curriculum and the cultural studies of education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He received his PhD in educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Rutgers University-Newark before joining the faculty in the Department of Educational Leadership at Miami University. He is the author of Leaving Safe Harbors: Toward a New Progressivism in American Education and Public Life (2003), The Education of Eros: A History of Education and the Problem of Adolescent Sexuality (2012), and Volunteers of America: The Journey of a Peace Corps Teacher (2012). He has co-edited a number of volumes in the cultural studies of education and has published in major scholarly journals, including the Harvard Educational Review and Educational Theory.