Sexuality in School: The Limits of Education

Author:   Jen Gilbert ,  Jen Gilbert
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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9780816686391


Pages:   144
Publication Date:   10 August 2014
Format:   Paperback
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From concerns over the bullying of LGBTQ youth and battles over sex education to the regulation of sexual activity and the affirmation of queer youth identity, sexuality saturates the school day. Rather than understand these conflicts as an interruption to the work of education, Jen Gilbert explores how sexuality comes to bear on and to enliven teaching and learning. Gilbert investigates the breakdowns, clashes, and controversies that flare up when sexuality enters spaces of schooling. Education must contain the volatility of sexuality, Gilbert argues, and yet, when education seeks to limit the reach of sexuality, it risks shutting learning down. Gilbert penetrates this paradox by turning to fiction, film, legal case studies, and personal experiences. What, she asks, can we learn about school from a study of sexuality? By examining the strange workings of sexuality in schools, Gilbert draws attention to the explosive but also compelling force of erotic life in teaching and learning. Ultimately, this book illustrates how the most intimate of our experiences can come to shape how we see and act in the world.

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Author:   Jen Gilbert ,  Jen Gilbert
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.318kg
ISBN:  

9780816686391


ISBN 10:   0816686394
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   10 August 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents 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

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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 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. --<i>CHOICE</i></p> 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 <i>Sexuality in Schools</i> for the wisdom and sense of connection it generates. --<i>Sex Roles: A Journal of Research</i></p>


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


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Jen Gilbert is associate professor in the Faculty of Education at York University, Toronto.

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