Sexing the teacher : school sex scandals and queer pedagogies / Sheila L. Cavanagh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cavanagh, Sheila L. (Sheila Lynn), 1969-

Series:

Sexuality studies series.

Sexuality studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women teachers--Sexual behavior.

Women teachers.

Child sexual abuse by teachers.

Sexually abused boys.

Teacher-student relationships.

Queer theory.

Feminist film criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sexing the Teacher is a provocative study of public and professional responses to female teacher sex scandals in Canada, the United States and Britain. Sheila Cavanagh examines the moral and professional panic over sexual transgressions in the educational milieu by analyzing several sensationalized legal cases, including Mary Kay Letourneau, Amy Gehring, and Heather Ingram. Deploying queer theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonial theory, and feminist film theory, Cavanagh analyses deep-seated anxieties about white female teacher sexualities and offers a critique of the damage that gets done in the name of child protectionism. Arguing that foundational assumptions about race, gender, class, sexuality, and family are all central to the panic, Cavanagh questions the conventional wisdom and politics governing our conceptualization of sex scandals in education. She also demonstrates that public upset over female teacher sexual transgressions, ostensibly about child welfare, is also about the regulation of gender, heteronormative, and white reproductive futures: a hidden curriculum in Western educational systems. Timely, original, and controversial, Sexing the Teacher will appeal to scholars and students in education, sociology, gender, sexuality, and cultural studies, as well as to general readers interested in the sensationalism over school sex scandals that has dominated recent headlines.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Queer Pedagogy and Sex Scandals in Education

Teacher's Pet: Mary Kay Letourneau and Her Fall from Grace in White America

Upsetting Desires in the Classroom: Annie Markson and the Queer Pedagogy of the Femme Fatale

Sexing the Teacher: Voyeuristic Pleasure in the Amy Gehring Sex Panic

Erotic Discipline: Eros, Aggression, and Maternal Pedagogies in the Heather Ingram Case

Sex in the Lesbian Teacher's Closet: The Hybrid Proliferation of Queers in the Jean Robertson Scandal

Conclusion: Troubling Methodological Memoirs and Queer Pedagogies of Pederasty

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and index.

ISBN:

0-7748-2181-7

1-282-59346-3

9786612593468

0-7748-5571-1

OCLC:

320050320