Equality, Education, and Human Rights in the United States

This book offers an uncompromising and rigorous analysis of education and human rights by examining issues related to gender, race, sexuality, disability and social class. This book is an essential resource across a wide range of disciplines and for all those interested in education, social policy and equality.

Foreword: Democracy Under Siege and the Rise of the Unthinkable; Introduction: Equality and Human Rights in the United States today1. Feminism and Socialism: Looking Back, Looking Ahead; 2. Gender and Education: The Revolutionary 'Force and Reason' of Women; 3. U. S. History Breathes and Bleeds Racism; 4. Racism and Education: Failure to Achieve Democratic Aims Inclusively in Public Schooling; 5. The Making of Sexuality in the United States: Normativity, Heteropatriarchy, and Resisting the 'Euphoria' of Androcentric Logic; 6. Toward a Marxian Understanding of Sex Education Policy and Curriculum in the United States; 7. Disability Matters: A Materialist History of Disability Under U.S. Settler-Capitalism; 8. Disabling Learning Conditions: Ability-Segregated Education and the Creation of Disability; 9. Marx and the Marxist alternative to neoliberal capitalism: the case for a fully inclusive ecosocialism for today; 10. The Hidden Cost of Class Disavowal and the Case for a New Education System: Social Class and Education in the U.S.