MARGARET A. NASH is professor emerita in the School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. She is the editor of Women's Higher Education in the United States: New Historical Perspectives and the author of Women's Education in the United States, 1780-1840.KAREN L. GRAVES recently retired from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where she was professor in the Department of Education. She is the author of And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida's Purge of Gay and Lesbian Teachers and a coeditor of Inexcusable Omissions: Clarence Karier and the Critical Tradition in History of Education Scholarship.

"In this superb combination of narrative and analytical history, Nash and Graves engage us first with the dramatic, arduous story of Marjorie Rowland and her fight for equitable treatment.  They then analyze how principles drawn from Rowland's case have informed litigation surrounding LGBTQ educators over time, concluding with potent reflections on current prospects.  Covering vast legal ground in accessible language, this book will stand as an important marker of the history of rights for LGBTQ school professionals."— Linda Eisenmann, author of Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965"Margaret Nash and Karen Graves have produced the first full history of a true American heroine. Thanks to brave educators like Marjorie Rowland, LGBTQ teachers now enjoy vastly more freedoms than they did in earlier eras. But the fight is hardly over, as this brilliant little book reminds us. We have indeed come a long way, in the struggle for real human equality in our schools. And we also have much farther to go."— Jonathan Zimmerman, author of The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America

• Preface1 Staking a Claim in Mad River2 "I Had to Be the Fighter"3 The Meaning of Mad River: Implications of the Case4 "Coming Out of the Classroom Closet": LGBTQ Teachers' Lives after Mad River5 Movements Forward and BackAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

MARGARET A. NASH is professor emerita in the School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. She is the editor of Women's Higher Education in the United States: New Historical Perspectives and the author of Women's Education in the United States, 1780-1840.KAREN L. GRAVES recently retired from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, where she was professor in the Department of Education. She is the author of And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida's Purge of Gay and Lesbian Teachers and a coeditor of Inexcusable Omissions: Clarence Karier and the Critical Tradition in History of Education Scholarship.

"In this superb combination of narrative and analytical history, Nash and Graves engage us first with the dramatic, arduous story of Marjorie Rowland and her fight for equitable treatment.  They then analyze how principles drawn from Rowland's case have informed litigation surrounding LGBTQ educators over time, concluding with potent reflections on current prospects.  Covering vast legal ground in accessible language, this book will stand as an important marker of the history of rights for LGBTQ school professionals."— Linda Eisenmann, author of Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965"Margaret Nash and Karen Graves have produced the first full history of a true American heroine. Thanks to brave educators like Marjorie Rowland, LGBTQ teachers now enjoy vastly more freedoms than they did in earlier eras. But the fight is hardly over, as this brilliant little book reminds us. We have indeed come a long way, in the struggle for real human equality in our schools. And we also have much farther to go."— Jonathan Zimmerman, author of The Amateur Hour: A History of College Teaching in America

• Preface1 Staking a Claim in Mad River2 "I Had to Be the Fighter"3 The Meaning of Mad River: Implications of the Case4 "Coming Out of the Classroom Closet": LGBTQ Teachers' Lives after Mad River5 Movements Forward and BackAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex