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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824915403321

Autore

Kehily Mary Jane

Titolo

Sexuality, gender and schooling : shifting agendas in social learning / / Mary Jane Kehily

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

1-134-46406-1

1-280-14318-5

0-203-99539-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Disciplina

306.70835

Soggetti

Sex (Psychology)

Sex instruction

Youth - Sexual behavior

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sexuality, Gender and Schooling Shifting agendas in social learning; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 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 embodimentChapter 7 Sexing the subject: teachers, pedagogies and sex education; Chapter 8 Sexuality, gender and schooling reconsidered: notes towards a conclusion; Notes; Appendix; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 telling



and insightful account of how young people acquire sexual knowledge and how they enact their understanding of their own gender. It highlights the ways in which young people's con