Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: "Unbecoming Teachers" -- Chapter Breakdown and Description -- Chapter 2: "All the Single Ladies": A Century of Schoolmarms, Spinsters, and Superwomen Teachers -- "A Social Nemesis" -- The Little Teacher: A Kind, Gentle, and Pistol-Packin' Schoolmarm -- Autumn Crocus: Fanny Gray, or "The Little Brown Lady" -- The Corn Is Green: Meet Miss Moffat, "An Educated Woman" -- The Durable Trope -- "Women, Where Are We Going?" -- Chapter 3: Lesbians, Vampires, and Vermin: The Unspeakable Dangers of Unfit Teachers, 1920s-1940s -- Fat, Insane, and Unfit to Teach -- "Just as Unnatural as It Could Be" -- No Lesbians Here -- "What Sort of a Fag Do You Call Yourself?" -- "Panic, Just Panic, that Drove Me from One to Another" -- Chapter 4: Commies on Campus: Radical Liberalism and Academic Freedom, 1940s-1950s -- "Dress Rehearsal for McCarthyism" -- Football Heroes, Unconfused Liberals, and Blatherskites -- "Let's Go!" -- Thorium Plates, Loyalty Oaths, and Communists in the Guise of Educators -- "A Trifle Marxian" -- Soft-Boiled Liberals and Hard-Boiled Eggheads -- Chapter 5: Crème de la Crème of Fascism: Miss Jean Brodie, Miss Margarida, and Sister Mary |