Pushing the limits of liberalism: queerness, children, and the future

Educational Theory

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 469-487

  Mayo, Cris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 39749151867     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2006.00239.x     Document Type: Review

References (55)

1. Richard Mohr, "Gay Studies as Moral Vision," Educational Theory 39, no. 2 (1989): 126.
2. Tom Warner, No Turning Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), 70.
3. Lisa Duggan, "Sex Panics," in Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture (New York: Routledge, 1995), 75.
4. Richard Mohr, Toward a More Perfect Union (Boston: Beacon Press, 1994). Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick makes a similar point in Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).
5. Urvashi Vaid, Virtual Equality (New York: Anchor, 1995), 4.
6. Warner, No Turning Back, 70. Miriam Smith argues that rights discourse has had the effect of turning some lgbt political organizations away from community building and liberationist discourse and has prompted them to frame their issues in a way that the liberal state can understand. But she also argues that lgbt movements remain "decentered subjects." See Smith, Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada: Social Movements and Equality-Seeking (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999), 152.
7. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "How to Bring Your Children Up Gay," in Fear of a Queer Planet, ed. Michael Warner (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 69-81.
8. See Human Rights Watch, Hatred in the Hallways: Violence and Discrimination Against Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Students in U.S. Schools (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2001).
9. U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third District, David Warren Saxe v. State College Area School District (2001), No. 99-4081.
10. For a fuller discussion of this case, see Cris Mayo, "The Tolerance that Dare Not Speak Its Name," in Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence, ed. Megan Boler (New York: Peter Lang, 2004), 37-40.
11. Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, Democracy and Disagreement (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998), 108-109.
12. Liberals are not the only ones who use gay issues to spark debate but then fail to discuss them. See the introduction to Joel Spring's The Intersection of Cultures: Multicultural Education in the United States and the Global Economy (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2000), 6.
13. Amy Gutmann, Identity in Democracy (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2003), 103-108.
14. William A. Galston, Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 95.
15. While the Equal Access Act of 1984 has provided justification for many Gay Straight Alliances, an increasing number of school districts (for example, the Lubbock Independent School District) are using an "abstinence only" policy as the justification for banning them, arguing that GSAs are not in keeping with community standards and are obscene.
16. Galston, Liberal Pluralism, 116-117.
17. Ibid., 120-121.
18. Charles Taylor, "The Politics of Recognition," in Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition, ed. Amy Gutmann (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994), 64.
19. Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990), 37.
20. Walter Feinberg, Common Schools/Uncommon Identities: National Unity and Cultural Difference (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1998), 17.
21. Ibid., 183-189.
22. Saxe v. State College Area School District.
23. Stephen Macedo, Democracy and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000), 4.
24. Alan Wolfe, One Nation, After All: What Middle-Class Americans Really Think About (New York: Penguin Books, 1998), 75, 79.
25. U.S. Congress. House. Defense of Marriage Act. 104th Cong., 2d sess., H.R. 3396.
26. Ibid.
27. See, for instance, Janice Irvine, Talk About Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002); Judith Levine, Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002);
28. and Cris Mayo, Disputing the Subject of Sex: Sexuality and School Controversies (Boulder, Colorado: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004).
29. Levine, Harmful to Minors, 111.
30. Irvine, Talk About Sex, 194.
31. Justice Byron White in Bowers v. Hardwick (1986), 478 U.S. 186.
32. Justice Anthony Kennedy in Lawrence et al. v. Texas (2003), 539 U.S. 558.
33. Ibid.
34. Chief Justice Margaret A. Marshall in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (2003), SJC-08860, http://www.masslaw.com/signup/opinion.cfm? Fpage 1/4 ma/opin/sup/1017603.htm.
35. Chief Justice Earl Warren in McGowan v. Maryland (1961), 366 U.S. 420, quoted in Michael McConnell, John Garvey, and Thomas Berg, Religion and the Constitution (Gaithersburg, Maryland: Aspen, 2002), 725.
36. Marshall, Goodridge v. Department of Public Health.
37. Ibid.
38. Kathleen M. Sands, "Introduction," God Forbid (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 5.
39. See http://www.legislature.state.al.us/CodeofAlabama/1975/16-40A-2.htm.
40. Levine, Harmful to Minors, 98. See also Bowen v. Kendrick (1988), 487 U.S. 589.
41. Daniel Daley quoted in Levine, Harmful to Minors, 99.
42. Valerie Lehr, "Who Are 'Our' Children?" Queer Family Values: Debunking the Myth of the Nuclear Family (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), 139-140.
43. Ibid., 143.
44. Robert Reich, Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in American Education (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 158.
45. Ibid., 161.
46. Meira Levinson, The Demands of Liberal Education (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 58.
47. Harry Brighouse, "What Rights (If Any) Do Children Have?" (2001), http://philosophy.wisc.edu/ what-rights.htm.
48. Ibid.
49. Lehr, "Who Are 'Our' Children?" 144-145.
50. Ibid., 146.
51. See Michael Warner, The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Gay Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999);
52. and Jeffery Weeks, Invented Moralities: Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).
53. See, for instance, Samuel R. Delany, Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, 1957-1965 (New York: Arbor House, 1988).
54. Gutmann, Identity in Democracy, 14.
55. Amy Gutmann, Democratic Education (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987), 110.