1st Edition
Sexuality, Gender and Schooling Shifting Agendas in Social Learning
By Mary Jane Kehily
Copyright 2002
266 Pages
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Routledge
272 Pages
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Routledge
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The sexuality of young people arouses controversy and remains a source of concern for parents, teachers, policy-makers and politicians. But what young people really think about sexuality and gender and how these issues impact upon their lives is often marginalized or overlooked.
Based upon extensive ethnographic research with young people and teachers, Sexuality, Gender and Schooling offers a... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Fragments from a fading career: personal narratives and emotional investments; Chapter 2 Ways of conceptualising sexuality, gender and schooling; Chapter 3 Producing heterosexualities: the school as a site of discursive practices; Chapter 4 Agony aunts and absences: an analysis of a sex education class; Chapter 5 More Sugar? Teenage magazines, gender displays and sexual learning; Chapter 6 Understanding masculinities: young men, heterosexuality and embodiment; Chapter 7 Sexing the subject: teachers, pedagogies and sex education; Chapter 8 Sexuality, gender and schooling reconsidered: notes towards a conclusion;
Biography
Mary Jane Kehily is a lecturer in Childhood Studies at the Open University.
'Reading Mary's work provokes recognition, you remember how it feels to be in a sex education class ... This must be one of the best reads around in the area of sexuality and young people.' - Sex Education
'The attention to detail and careful links made between theory, research and practice make this book an enjoyable read which I'd recommend to others.' - Gayle Letherby, Gender and Education
