Rethinking sexism, gender, and sexuality / edited by Annika Butler-Wall, Kim Cosier, Rachel L.S. Harper, Jeff Sapp, Jody Sokolower, Melissa Bollow Tempel.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality -- Introduction -- The New Misogyny What it means for teachers and classrooms -- Queering Our Schools -- Seneca Falls, Selma, Stonewall Moving beyond equality -- Chapter 2. Our Classrooms -- Introduction -- 10 Ways to Move Beyond Bully Prevention (And Why We Should) -- 4-Year-Olds Discuss Love and Marriage -- It's OK to Be Neither: Teaching that supports gender-independent children -- Hello Kitty: A "boy teacher" takes on gender stereotypes -- The Character of Our Content: A parent confronts bias in early elementary literature -- Believe Me the First Time -- 7th Graders and Sexism -- Dressing Up -- When the Gender Boxes Don't Fit -- As a Mom and a Teacher -- Standing Up for Tocarra -- In Search of Safe Bathrooms -- "Aren't There Any Poor Gay People Besides Me?" Teaching LGBTQ issues in the rural South -- Untitled -- Chapter 3: Our Curriculum -- Introduction -- Disarming the Nuclear Family: Creating a classroom book that reflects the class -- Sex Talk on the Carpet: Incorporating gender and sexuality into 5th-grade curriculum -- 2nd Graders Put On a Gender-Bending Assembly -- Of Mice and Marginalization -- Elbow Is Not a Sexy Word: Approaches to sex education -- Teaching Sex Positivity: An interview with Lena Solow -- 7 Tips for Teaching Sex Ed -- Intersectionality: Gender, Race, and the Media: An interview with Liza Gesuden -- Young Women in the Movimiento: Chican@ studies after the ban -- When Emma Goldman Entered the Room Dealing with the unexpected in a role play -- Is She Your Bitch? Confronting sexism on the fly -- Seneca Falls, 1848: Women organize for equality -- A Midsummer Night's Gender Diversity -- Teaching The Laramie Project -- Creative Conflict: Collaborative Playwriting -- 500 Square Feet of Respect: Queering a study of the criminal justice system -- Teaching Angels in America -- Baby Mamas in Literature and Life -- Chapter 4: When Teachers Come Out -- Introduction -- "My Teacher Is a Lesbian" Coming out at school -- Two Men and an Imaginary Dog -- Challenging Homophobia in the Classroom: Lessons from two students -- Transsexuals Teaching Your Children -- "She's for Real" An 8th-grade teacher comes out -- A Xican@ Teacher's Journey -- Chapter 5: Beyond the Classroom -- Introduction -- Ask Me Who I Am -- We Begin to Know Each Other -- Space for Young Black Women: An interview with Candice Valenzuela -- "Save the Muslim Girl!" -- Those Who Carry Bias -- Dear Parents of Transgender Children -- Rethinking the Day of Silence -- Gay-Straight Alliances Align with Restorative Justice: An interview with Geoffrey Winder -- Policy Change: A Student Perspective -- Mirrors and Windows: Conversations with Jacqueline Woodson -- Chapter 6: Teacher Education, Continuing Education -- Introduction -- "Let's Put Our Bias Goggles On" Reading representations of Black girl identity through critical lenses -- Still Miles of Sexist Aisles: Helping students investigate toy stores -- Fisher -- An Open Letter to My Son's Teacher -- Framing Identity Using photographs to rethink sexism, gender, and sexuality -- Sergio's Voice: Fostering writing lives -- "It's Not Appropriate!" Sexual orientation in teacher preparation curriculum -- "Are You a Girl or a Boy?" Reading 10,000 Dresses with college students -- Teaching and Learning About Sexism: 3 conceptual challenges -- Gayvangelical: Teaching at the Intersection of Religious and Queer.

How do you respond when a child asks, "Can a girl turn into a boy?" What if your daughter brings home school books with sexist, racist stories? What does "queering the curriculum" look like? What's wrong with "anti-bullying" policies? What are alternatives? Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality is a collection of inspiring stories about how to integrate feminist and LGBTQ content into curriculum, make it part of a vision for social justice, and create classrooms and schools that nurture all children and their families. Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality is filled with insightful, inspiring articles about: Our Classrooms, Our Curriculum, When Teachers Come Out, Beyond the Classroom, Teacher Education, Continuing Education.

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