Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. vii, 172 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Why do we have sex education? For whom does it exist, and who is it against? This book explores these questions, ultimately calling into question the very existence of sex education itself. The analysis is centred on the marginalised lives of sex workers. This focus allows us to see sex education and sex work in a new light and provides insights into the implications of sex education in public schools and teacher education. By considering the relationship between sex education and sex work, Caitlin Howlett reveals the way in which sex education exists as a form of state violence, and continues to maintain close ties to sexism, racism, colonialism, and capitalism. Drawing on Foucauldian genealogy, feminist history, epistemology, post-humanism, and queer of color critique, Howlett calls for an end to sex education as a federally funded project and argues for new pedagogical approaches to educating about sex, gender, and sexuality in schools"--

Series statement

1. Radical politics and education

Subject

1. Sex instruction
2. Sex workers
3. Exploitation
4. Sexism
5. Colonization

Contents

1. Introduction : making something out of nothing -- Origin problems -- Small, but mighty : a little funding for a huge cause -- Violent straightening and the function of the state -- The international implications of domestic sex education policy -- Alternatives, not adjustments : imagination, not intervention -- Conclusion : clandestine praxes.

Call number

1. JFE 22-320

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Howlett, Caitlin, author.

Title

1. Against sex education : pedagogy, sex work, and state violence / Caitlin Howlett.

Publisher

1. London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022.

Copyright date

1. ©2022

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Radical politics and education

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other form:

1. Online version: Howlett, Caitlin, Against sex education London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 9781350178458 (DLC) 2021013788

LCCN

1. 2021013787

ISBN

1. 9781350178441 hardcover
2. 1350178446 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 22-320