Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: Queer Pedagogy and Sex Scandals in Education

2 Teacher’s Pet: Mary Kay Letourneau and Her Fall from Grace in White America

3 Upsetting Desires in the Classroom: Annie Markson and the Queer Pedagogy of the Femme Fatale

4 Sexing the Teacher: Voyeuristic Pleasure in the Amy Gehring Sex Panic

5 Erotic Discipline: Eros, Aggression, and Maternal Pedagogies in the Heather Ingram Case

6 Sex in the Lesbian Teacher’s Closet: The Hybrid Proliferation of Queers in the Jean Robertson Scandal

7 Conclusion: Troubling Methodological Memoirs and Queer Pedagogies of Pederasty

Notes

References

Index

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Cavanagh's insightful analysis is thought-provoking and intellectually exciting. Readers should find themselves questioning the media coverage of school sex scandals, seeking to look past the moral panic and indignation these engender to an interrogation of how and why female teachers are presented as seductresses or villains. -- Valda Leightheizer, Mount Saint Vincent University Sexing the Teacher is extremely provocative, original, and insightful ... It is edgy, timely, and intellectually muscular. Cavanagh mines very fertile ground in a topical, theoretically rich fashion. -- Becki Ross, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of British Columbia This book makes the kind of 'trouble' for the moral panic around female teacher-student sex scandals that Judith Butler's Gender Trouble made for gender. -- Kate Krug, Associate Professor, Anthropology and Sociology, Cape Breton University

About the Author

Sheila L. Cavanagh is an associate professor of sociology at York University.