With the recent conservative retrenchment, educational institutions have witnessed a backlash against the gains made by feminist and antiracist activists. DangerousTerritories examines higher education as one site of this backlash, at the same time challenging the binary framing of discourse as "reactionary" vs. "progressive," or Right vs. Left. Contributors are scholars working within and across a variety of disciplines including law, history, sociology, education, literature, women's studies, queer theory, cultural politics and postcolonialism.

co-author Views Beyond the Border Country: RaymondWilliams and Cultural Politics (Routledge, 1993). LindaEyre is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of New Brunswick.

PREFACE--Dangerous Territories, Territorial Power and Education, by Chandra Talpade Mohanty INTRODUCTION -- The Usual Suspects?: Struggles for 'Difference' and 'Equality' in Education, Leslie G. Roman and Linda Eyre PART I--Stating the Unstated: Nations, State Power and Education. 1. Himani Bannerji: Geography Lessons: On Being an Insider/Outsider to the Canadian Nation 2. Davina Cooper: 'At the Expense of Christianity': Backlash Discourse and Moral Panic 3. Didi Herman:'Then I Saw a New Heaven and a New Earth': Thoughts on the Christian Right and the Problem of 'Backlash' 4. Jill Blackmore: Disciplining Feminism: A Look at Gender-Equity Struggles in Australian Higher Education PART II--Inside-Out: Transgressive Pedagogies and Unsettling Classrooms 5. Richard Cavell: Transvestic Sites: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy and Politics 6. Aruna Srivastava: Anti-Racism Inside and Outside the Classroom 7. Alice Jane Pitt: Reading Resistance Analytically: On Making the Self in Women's Studies 8. Patricia Elliot: Denial and Disclosure: An Analysis of Selective Reality in the Feminist Classroom PART III--Shifting Courses, Directions and Politics: Out from the Ghetto of Pedagogy 9. Dorothy E. Smith: Report and Repression: Textual Hazards for Feminists in the Academy 10. Howard M. Solomon: 'What a Shame You Don't Publish': Crossing the Boundaries as a Public Intellectual Activist 11. Linda Eyre: Re-Forming (Hetero)Sexuality Education 12. Leslie G. Roman and Timothy Stanley: Empires, Emigrs and Aliens: Young People's Negotiations of Official and Popular Racism in Canada 13. Celia Haig- Brown: Gender Equity, Policy and Practice 14. Jane Kenway: Backlash in Cyberspace: Why 'Girls Need Modems'