Sexuality in school : the limits of education

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Jen, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex instruction--Education.

Sex instruction.

Gender identity--Education.

Gender identity.

Sexual minorities.

Sex differences in education.

Homosexuality and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (150 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] University of Minnesota Press 2014

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jen Gilbert investigates the breakdowns, clashes, and controversies that flare up when sexuality enters spaces of schooling. She draws attention to the explosive but also compelling force of erotic life in teaching and learning, illustrating how the most intimate of our experiences can come to shape how we see and act in the world.

Contents:

Cover

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

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-4529-4221-8