About the authors:
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Riverside. She is the editor of <
em>Women&rsquo\;s Higher Education in the United States: New Historical
Perspectives and the author of Women&rsquo\;s Educati
on in the United States\, 1780-1840.
Karen L. Graves<
/strong> is Professor in the Department of Education at Denison University
in Granville\, Ohio.
She is the author of And They Were Wonderfu
l Teachers: Florida&rsquo\;s Purge of Gay and Lesbian
Teache
rs and a co-editor of Inexcusable Omissions: Clarence Karier and
the Critical Tradition in History of
Education Scholarship.
Mad River\, Marjorie Rowland\, and the Q
uest for LGBTQ Teachers&rsquo\; Rights addresses an importan
t legal
case that set the stage for today&rsquo\;s LGBTQ civil rights
&ndash\;a case that almost no one has heard of. Marjorie
Rowland v. M
ad River School District involves an Ohio guidance counselor fired in 1974
for being bisexual.
Rowland&rsquo\;s case made it to the U.S. Suprem
e Court\, but the justices declined to consider it. In a spectacular
published dissent\, Justice Brennan laid out arguments for why the First a
nd Fourteenth Amendments apply
to bisexuals\, gays\, and lesbians. Th
at dissent has been the foundation for LGBTQ civil rights advances
si
nce.
In the first in-depth treatment of this foundational legal
case\, authors Margaret A. Nash and Karen L.
Graves tell the story o
f that case and of Marjorie Rowland\, the pioneer who fought for employmen
t rights
for LGBTQ educators and who paid a heavy price for that figh
t. It brings the story of LGBTQ educators&rsquo\;
rights to the prese
nt\, including commentary on Bostock v Clayton County\, the 2020 Supreme C
ourt case
that struck down employment discrimination against LGBT wor
kers.
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