Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History

by Leila J. Rupp (Editor), Susan K. Freeman (Editor)

Overview

Taking into account recent historic changes, this second edition updates the essays on the Supreme Court, same-sex marriage, the Right, and trans history. Authors of several other essays have taken the opportunity to add new material and references where warranted.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299313043
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	03/14/2017
Series:	The Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching History
Edition description:	2
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Leila J. Rupp is the author of many books, including A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America and Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women. She is a professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Susan K. Freeman is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at Western Michigan University. She is the author of Sex Goes to School: Girls and Sex Education before the 1960s.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction to the Second Edition                       
 
Introduction
The Ins and Outs of U.S. History: Introducing Students to a Queer Past                      
            Susan K. Freeman and Leila J. Rupp
Outing the Past: U.S. Queer History in Global Perspective                  
            Leila J. Rupp
 
Part One: The Challenge of Teaching Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
Forty Years and Counting                   
            John D'Emilio
Putting Ideas into Practice: High School Teachers Talk about Incorporating LGBT History               
            Daniel Hurewitz
Questions, Not Test Answers: Teaching LGBT History in Public Schools                    
            Emily K. Hobson and Felicia T. Perez
Observing Difference: Toward a Pedagogy of Historical and Cultural Intersections                  
            Kevin Mumford
 
Part Two: Topics in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
Transforming the Curriculum: The Inclusion of the Experiences of Trans People                   
            Genny Beemyn
Sexual Diversity in Early America                   
            Thomas A. Foster
Nineteenth-Century Male Love Stories and Sex Stories                       
            David D. Doyle Jr.
Romantic Friendship: Exploring Modern Categories of Sexuality, Love, and Desire between Women              
            Dáša Francíková
Industrial Capitalism and Emergent Sexual Cultures                 
            Red Vaughan Tremmel
Men and Women Like That: Regional Identities and Rural Sexual Cultures in the South and Pacific Northwest                       
            Colin R. Johnson
The Other War: Gay Men and Lesbians in the Second World War                   
            Marilyn E. Hegarty
The Red Scare's Lavender Cousin: The Construction of the Cold War Citizen             
            David K. Johnson
Public Figures, Private Lives: Eleanor Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, and a Queer Political History                    
            Claire Bond Potter
Community and Civil Rights in the Kinsey Era                       
            Craig M. Loftin
Queers of Hope, Gays of Rage: Reexamining the Sixties in the Classroom                   
            Ian Lekus
Sexual Rights and Wrongs: Teaching the U.S. Supreme Court's Greatest Gay and Lesbian Hits             
            Marc Stein
Queer Generations: Teaching the History of Same-Sex Parenting since the Second World War                       
            Daniel Rivers
The New Right's Antigay Backlash                  
            Whitney Strub
How to Teach AIDS in a U.S. History Survey              
            Jennifer Brier
"Don't Ask, Don't Tell": The Politics of Military Change                   
            Aaron Belkin
Teaching Same-Sex Marriage as U.S. History              
            Shannon Weber
 
Part Three: Discovery and Interpretation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
History as Social Change: Community-Based Archives and Oral Histories                   
            Nan Alamilla Boyd
Teaching LGBT History through Fiction: A Story-Logic Approach to the Problems of Naming and Evidence            
            Norman W. Jones
Screening the Queer Past: Teaching LGBT History with Documentary Films              
            Nicholas L. Syrett
Popular Culture: Using Television, Film, and the Media to Explore LGBT History                 
            Sharon Ullman
Queer History Goes Digital: Using Outhistory.org in the Classroom                
            Catherine O. Jacquet
 
Contributors                
Index

Editorial Reviews

"A terrific book for anyone teaching U.S. history to high school or college students. It is designed to explain why, and especially how, educators can integrate LGBT history into their existing courses. The volume contains superb essays by scholars and teachers that speak to pedagogy, sources, and methods, and includes seventeen topical essays that span the breadth of U.S. history, from colonial same-sex experiences to contemporary same-sex marriage." —American Historian


"Contributors deftly tie LGBT content to the broader goals of teaching history, not simply making visible the lives of everyday queer people but prompting critical engagement." —Publishers Weekly, starred review


"The authors understand this will be a controversial issue, and they present it in such a way that it would go over well in high school and college classrooms." —San Francisco Book Review


"Groundbreaking and readable. ... Essential for college and university libraries supporting teacher training degree programs and curricula in American history, LGBT studies, and the social sciences." —Choice

From the Publisher

★ 11/03/2014
Editors Rupp (A Desired Past) and Freeman (Sex Goes to School) have compiled an excellent and sturdy resource that offers high school and college teachers an entry point into LGBT history by distilling “the best historical scholarship.” Rather than finding small wedges for inserting “another other” into standardized curricula, the authors contribute personal experience, methodologies, and pedagogical practices outlining an “intersectional approach” that gives students “a richer understanding” of these obscured histories. A thick middle section provides several content-specific essays demonstrating that “the queer past runs wide and deep,” from instances of gender-crossing among Native American tribes, same-sex desire in rural America or on the frontier, and intense “romantic friendships” among 19th-century pairs, early-20th-century drag balls, the Lavender Scare, and civil rights activism that began long before Stonewall or the AIDS epidemic. Throughout, contributors deftly tie LGBT content to the broader goals of teaching history, not simply making visible the lives of everyday queer people but prompting critical engagement, showing students how “the ideas and practices of what we consider to be ‘normal’ constructed and maintained, resisted and reshaped.” In all, the volume serves as a valuable reference guide and creates the groundwork for “a usable past” that can “inspire young minds to imagine and work for a more open and accepting future.” Photos. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly