Resilience: Queer Professors from the Working Class

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First collection of essays by queer scholars with working-class backgrounds.
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Editorial Reviews

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By addressing two outsider statuses, queer and working class, within higher education, Resilience makes a contribution to a number of academic areas, such as higher education, queer studies, and class studies, and a variety of audiences, including policy-makers, administrators, faculty, counselors, and students.— H-Net Reviews

"The 13 personal and professional stories of young people journeying towards professorship were all different, riveting, and well edited. Oldfield and Johnson have done the field of current and prospective faculty, as well as scholars and researchers in the field[s] of higher education, gender studies, and sexuality study, great service by selecting compelling life accounts to illuminate varied aspects of this profound, hitherto invisible, and silenced journey."— New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development

"This book began, like many good ideas, as a conversation ... the result is a collection of thirteen moving, beautifully written autobiographical essays, each charting a unique, usually roundabout path from working class conditions to the professoriate."— Gay & Lesbian Review
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780791476383
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publication date: 11/6/2008
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 264
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Kenneth Oldfield is Professor Emeritus of Public Administration at the University of Illinois at Springfield.

Richard Greggory Johnson III is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Vermont.

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Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. Introduction
Kenneth Wendell Oldfield and Richard Greggory Johnson III

2. Class, Sexuality, and Academia
Andrea R. Lehrermeier

3. Middle-Class Drag
Renny Christopher

4. From the Altar Boy’s Robes to the Professor’s Cap and Gown: The Journey of a Gay, Working-Class Academic
Timothy J. Quain

5. One in Ten: Teaching Tolerance for Class Difference, Ambiguity, and Queerness in the Culture Classroom
Denis M. Provencher

6. Flying the Coop: Liberation through Learning
Nancy Ciucevich Story

7. No More Rented Rooms
Bonnie R. Strickland

8. Escape from the Bronx: The Making of an Unlikely Leader
Richard Greggory Johnson III

9. My First Closet Was the Class Closet
Felice Yeskel

10. One Bad Lecture Away from Guarding a Bank: Identity as a Process
Michallene McDaniel

11. Becoming (Almost) One of Those “Damn, New York, Pinko Intellectuals”
Donald C. Barrett

12. Weaving the Self with Gender: Uniting Race, Sexual Orientation, and Social Class
Terell P. Lasane

13. Possibilities
Angelia R. Wilson

14. Hate Is Not a Family Value
Susan E. Borrego

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

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