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Risky Lessons : Sex Education and Social Inequality / Jessica Fields.
Author
Fields, Jessica
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
©2008
Description
1 online resource (220 p.)
Availability
Available Online
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Details
Subject(s)
Sex instruction for children
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United States
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Series
Series in Childhood Studies
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Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
Summary note
Curricula in U.S. public schools are often the focus of heated debate, and few subjects spark more controversy than sex education. While conservatives argue that sexual abstinence should be the only message, liberals counter that an approach that provides comprehensive instruction and helps young people avoid sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy is necessary. Caught in the middle are the students and teachers whose everyday experiences of sex education are seldom as clear-cut as either side of the debate suggests. Risky Lessons brings readers inside three North Carolina middle schools to show how students and teachers support and subvert the official curriculum through their questions, choices, viewpoints, and reactions. Most important, the book highlights how sex education's formal and informal lessons reflect and reinforce gender, race, and class inequalities. Ultimately critical of both conservative and liberal approaches, Fields argues for curricula that promote social and sexual justice. Sex education's aim need not be limited to reducing the risk of adolescent pregnancies, disease, and sexual activity. Rather, its lessons should help young people to recognize and contend with sexual desires, power, and inequalities.
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)
Language note
English
Contents
Front matter
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Asking More of Sex Education
2. Differences and Divisions: Social Inequality in Sex Education Debates and Policies
3. The Prophylactic of Talk: Sex Education’s Competing Lessons on Sexual Communication
4. Natural and Ideological: Depicting Bodies in Sex Education
5. Embattled Knowledge: Curiosity and Understanding in Sex Education
6. Conclusion: Policy, Practice, and Sexuality Education
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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ISBN
1-281-77659-9
9786611776596
0-8135-4499-8
OCLC
476183188
276270117
Doi
10.36019/9780813544991
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