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Disputing the subject of sex : sexuality and public school controversies

Title: Disputing the subject of sex : sexuality and public school controversies / Cris Mayo.
Author: Mayo, Cris.
Publication: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2004.

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Description

xxiii, 176 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"Sexuality remains a hotly debated subject, nowhere more so than in education. This book shows that discussions of sexuality and schooling can be simultaneously polarizing and democratizing. Disputing the Subject of Sex considers controversies over sex, AIDS, and gay-inclusive multicultural education, which offer especially fruitful opportunities to explore the claims of various identities, the social aims of public schools, and the relation between schools and the publics they serve. These controversies help to show the kind of confused tumble of discourses, seemingly nonsensical policy decisions, and student resistance that are born of arguments over sexuality and community membership."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Curriculum, cultures, and (homo)sexualities

Uniform Title

Curriculum, cultures, and (homo)sexualities

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-171) and index.

Contents

Sexuality and theory -- Cautions on the subject -- Identity and the monolithic community -- The adolescent as abstinent heterosexual -- Local values and the open closet -- Public sex : the abstinence oath and secondary virginity -- Conclusion : curious alliance.

ISBN

0742526585
9780742526587

LCCN

2005299963

OCLC

ocm55658501
55658501
SCSB-14692319

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library