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Book SynopsisJen 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.
Trade Review"Sexuality in School is an excellent contribution to youth studies and sexuality studies, and provides a fine link between queer theory and educational studies, as well. Jen Gilbert’s use of psychoanalytic theory gives us challenging ways to grapple with and revel in the difficulties of education, the subjects of sexuality, and the uncertainties of youth and age. Her work shows that these difficulties pervade teaching and can invite educators to try to understand the challenges of desire, hospitality, and possibility. By combining her fine theoretical analysis of controversies (a term she problematizes nicely) and her intricate discussion of the relationships of desire that structure learning, Gilbert gives us a way to explore education in general, but also to more fully understand the particularities of youth and sexuality." —Cris Mayo, author of
LGBTQ Youth & Education: Policies & Practices"An intriguing, provocative, and forward-thinking book."—CHOICE
"A refreshing and progressive look at the transformative possibilities of sexuality in school... Anyone who teaches sexuality, or has contemplated doing so, would also benefit from Sexuality in Schools for the wisdom and sense of connection it generates."—Sex Roles: A Journal of Research
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Queer Provocations1. Backward and Forward: Narrating the Queer Child2. There Is No Such Thing as an Adolescent: Sex Education as Taking a Risk3. Histories of Misery: It Gets Better and the Promise of Pedagogy4. Thinking in Sex Education: Between Prohibition and Desire5. Education as Hospitality: Toward a Reluctant Manifesto
AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
