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Title Professions of desire : lesbian and gay studies in literature / edited by George E. Haggerty and Bonnie Zimmerman.

Imprint New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1995.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.9920664 P942    ---  Axe Inventory 2024
Description xii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "Promoting homosexuality" in the classroom / George E. Haggerty -- Pedagogy and sexuality / Joseph Litvak -- Toward an antihomophobic pedagogy / Joseph Chadwick -- The Student and the strap: authority and seduction in the class(room) / Sue-Ellen Case -- What is lesbian literature? Forming a historical canon / Lillian Faderman -- Teaching the postmodern renaissance / Stephen Orgel -- Lesbian modernism: (trans)forming the (c)anon / Karla Jay -- Race, homosocial desire, and "mammon" in Autobiography of an ex-coloured man / Cheryl Clarke -- Lesbian poetry in the United States, 1890-1990: a brief overview / Paula Bennett -- Teaching differences: theory and practice in a lesbian and gay studies seminar / David Roman -- Expanding the categories of race and sexuality in lesbian and gay studies / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano -- Explicit instruction: teaching gay male sexuality in literature classes / Earl Jackson -- The Lesbian narrative: "The pursuit of the inedible by the unspeakable" / Marilyn R. Farwell -- Anal/yzing the classroom: on the impossibility of a queer pedagogy / Gregory W. Bredbeck -- The Disappearance of the homosexual in The Picture of Dorian Gray / Jeffrey Nunokawa -- Tales of the avunculate: queer tutelage in The Importance of being earnest / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Private affairs: race, sex, property, and persons / Phillip Brian Harper -- Memorial rags / Michael Moon.
Subject Gays' writings, American -- Study and teaching.
Gays' writings -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
Gays' writings, English -- Study and teaching.
American literature -- Study and teaching.
Gay and lesbian studies.
English literature -- Study and teaching.
Homosexuality and literature.
Lesbians in literature.
Gay men in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Added Author Haggerty, George E.
Zimmerman, Bonnie.
ISBN 0873525620 (cloth : recycled paper)
0873525639 (paper : recycled paper)

 
    
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