Marxism and Education beyond Identity: Sexuality and Schooling [Paperback]

This book seeks to revive dialectical materialist interpretations of sexuality, relevant to K-12 settings and society. Issues addressed include: sexuality and the curriculum, theories of the family, critiques of postmodernism, socialist feminism, and activist tactics/strategies for organizing in K-12 settings.The Existing Climate of K-12 Classrooms Sources of Opposition to Sexuality and LGBT Rights in the Schools The Family - Psychoanalytical, Anarchist, and Materialist Readings Identity Politics - Limits of Postmodernism and Queer Theory The Socialist Feminist Message:?Sexuality, Work, and Liberation Building Effective Educational and Resistance Movements in K-12 Classrooms
FAITH AGOSTINONE-WILSON is Associate Professor of Education at George Williams College of Aurora University in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, USA.