Sex(uality) education for trans and gender diverse youth in Australia / Barrie Shannon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shannon, Barrie, author.

Series:

Palgrave studies in gender and education 2524-6453

Palgrave studies in gender and education, 2524-6453

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex instruction--Study and teaching (Secondary)--Australia.

Sex instruction.

Gender-nonconforming children--Education--Australia.

Gender-nonconforming children.

Sex instruction--Study and teaching (Secondary).

Australia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]

Summary:

This book examines young trans and gender diverse Australians views of school-based sex education. The analysis is informed by a queer epistemology that acknowledges the systematic and institutional erasure of trans subjectivities through highly medicalised systems of categorisation. Drawing on primary qualitative data, the author emphasises the accounts of trans and gender diverse young people as they relate to sex education at school, and how they undertake informal learning about sex, gender and identity in other areas of their lives. Ultimately, the book problematises the assumption that the sex education classroom is the most appropriate vehicle for social justice education in relation to queer issues. Queer issues and sex education tend to be packaged together discursively, deliberately or by association in dominant media narratives. However, this discourse constrains queer identities to the realm of sex and health, and therefore does not engage with the social citizenship of queer people. Further, this limits the capacity of schools and teachers to meaningfully explore diversity in the classroom, as sex education is front-and-centre in the so called culture wars about gender, sexuality, youth and schools. Barrie Shannon is Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Their research focuses on educational issues for LGBTIQA+ youth, informed by intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical pedagogy.

Contents:

Part 1: Researching trans youth and sex(uality) education

Chapter 1. Introduction.-Chapter 2. Reflecting on queer subjectivities and practicing reflexivity

Chapter 3. Sex(uality) Education in Australia from Past to Present

Part 2: Formal sex(uality) education

Chapter 4. Hetero- and cisnormativity in contemporary sex education.-Chapter 5. Trans youth perspectives on formal sex education

Chapter 6. Envisioning a trans-positive, utopian sexuality education

Part 3: Informal sex(uality) education

Chapter 7. Friends, family and romance as sex(uality) education

Chapter 8. Traditional popular media as sex(uality) education

Chapter 9. Networked publics and online sex(uality) education

Part 4: Reimagining sex(uality) education

Chapter 10. Untangling the institutional constraints on trans youth becoming

Chapter 11. Conclusions and implications for practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 15, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: SHANNON, BARRIE. SEXUALITY EDUCATION FOR TRANS AND GENDER DIVERSE YOUTH IN AUSTRALIA.

ISBN:

9783030924461

3030924467

OCLC:

1295242076

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.