Table of Contents

Participants: Schools, Students, and Teachers

1 Introduction: Navigating Safe and Equitable Schools

2 Safe Schools: The Struggle for Control and the Quest for Social Justice

3 How Schools Conceptualize Safety: Control, Security, Equity, Social Justice

4 Not Keeping a Straight Face: Heteronormativity and the Hidden Curriculum

5 Obstacles to the Implementation of Equity Policies

6 The Long Arm of the Law? Mapping (Other) Normative Orders in Youth Culture

7 Barriers to the Effectiveness of State Law

8 Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Promotional Information

A timely and empowering work that gives GLBTQ youth a voice in addressing the problem of homophobic school bullying.

About the Author

Donn Short is an assistant professor of law in the Robson Hall Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba and the founding editor of the Canadian Journal of Human Rights.

Reviews

This thoughtfully written book could serve as a primer for those seeking to make schools a truly welcoming and safe place for all of their students. Short does a first-rate job of connecting policy, law, practice, and the day-to-day lives of students who are dealing with bullying and rejection by their peers, particularly with regard to their sexual orientation and their perceived-to-be-nonconforming behaviors. Summing Up: Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*

The book is informed by interviews with queer teens in the Toronto area, as well as interviews with the handful of administrative idealists scattered through the educational system. Conditions for queer teens may be better than they were two generations ago, but they cannot be said to be good, save in highly atypical refuges; that said, progress is possible, Short argues.
*Publishers Weekly*