Sexuality in school : the limits of education / Jen Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Jen, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex instruction.

Gender identity--Education.

Gender identity.

Sexual minorities--Education.

Sexual minorities.

Sex differences in education.

Homosexuality and education.

Education.

LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 120 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : Univ Of Minnesota Press, [2014]

Summary:

"From concerns over the bullying of LGBTQ youth and battles over sex education to the regulation of sexual activity and the affirmation of queer youth identity, sexuality saturates the school day. Rather than understand these conflicts as an interruption to the work of education, Jen Gilbert explores how sexuality comes to bear on and to enliven teaching and learning. Gilbert investigates the breakdowns, clashes, and controversies that flare up when sexuality enters spaces of schooling. Education must contain the volatility of sexuality, Gilbert argues, and yet, when education seeks to limit the reach of sexuality, it risks shutting learning down. Gilbert penetrates this paradox by turning to fiction, film, legal case studies, and personal experiences. What, she asks, can we learn about school from a study of sexuality? By examining the strange workings of sexuality in schools, Gilbert draws attention to the explosive but also compelling force of erotic life in teaching and learning. Ultimately, this book illustrates how the most intimate of our experiences can come to shape how we see and act in the world."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Contents

Introduction: Queer Provocations

1. Backward and Forward: Narrating the Queer Child

2. There Is No Such Thing as an Adolescent: Sex Education as Taking a Risk

3. Histories of Misery: It Gets Better and the Promise of Pedagogy

4. Thinking in Sex Education: Between Prohibition and Desire

5. Education as Hospitality: Toward a Reluctant Manifesto

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816686377

0816686378

9780816686391

0816686394

OCLC:

863200157