Sex(uality) Education for Trans and Gender Diverse Youth in Australia [electronic resource] / by Barrie Shannon.

By:

Shannon, Barrie [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Palgrave Studies in Gender and EducationPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022Edition: 1st ed. 2022Description: VIII, 217 p. 1 illus. online resourceISBN:

9783030924461

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DDC classification:

371 23

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Contents:

Part 1: Researching trans youth and sex(uality) education -- Chapter 1. Introduction.-Chapter 2. Reflecting on queer subjectivities and practicing reflexivity -- Chapter 3. Sex(uality) Education in Australia from Past to Present -- Part 2: Formal sex(uality) education -- Chapter 4. Hetero- and cisnormativity in contemporary sex education.-Chapter 5. Trans youth perspectives on formal sex education -- Chapter 6. Envisioning a trans-positive, utopian sexuality education -- Part 3: Informal sex(uality) education -- Chapter 7. Friends, family and romance as sex(uality) education -- Chapter 8. Traditional popular media as sex(uality) education -- Chapter 9. Networked publics and online sex(uality) education -- Part 4: Reimagining sex(uality) education -- Chapter 10. Untangling the institutional constraints on trans youth 'becoming' -- Chapter 11. Conclusions and implications for practice.

Summary: This book examines young trans and gender diverse Australians' views of school-based sex education. The analysis is informed by a queer epistemology that acknowledges the systematic and institutional erasure of trans subjectivities through highly medicalised systems of categorisation. Drawing on primary qualitative data, the author emphasises the accounts of trans and gender diverse young people as they relate to sex education at school, and how they undertake informal learning about sex, gender and identity in other areas of their lives. Ultimately, the book problematises the assumption that the sex education classroom is the most appropriate vehicle for social justice education in relation to queer issues. Queer issues and sex education tend to be packaged together discursively, deliberately or by association in dominant media narratives. However, this discourse constrains queer identities to the realm of sex and health, and therefore does not engage with the social citizenship of queer people. Further, this limits the capacity of schools and teachers to meaningfully explore diversity in the classroom, as sex education is front-and-centre in the so called 'culture wars' about gender, sexuality, youth and schools. Barrie Shannon is Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Their research focuses on educational issues for LGBTIQA+ youth, informed by intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical pedagogy.

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This book examines young trans and gender diverse Australians' views of school-based sex education. The analysis is informed by a queer epistemology that acknowledges the systematic and institutional erasure of trans subjectivities through highly medicalised systems of categorisation. Drawing on primary qualitative data, the author emphasises the accounts of trans and gender diverse young people as they relate to sex education at school, and how they undertake informal learning about sex, gender and identity in other areas of their lives. Ultimately, the book problematises the assumption that the sex education classroom is the most appropriate vehicle for social justice education in relation to queer issues. Queer issues and sex education tend to be packaged together discursively, deliberately or by association in dominant media narratives. However, this discourse constrains queer identities to the realm of sex and health, and therefore does not engage with the social citizenship of queer people. Further, this limits the capacity of schools and teachers to meaningfully explore diversity in the classroom, as sex education is front-and-centre in the so called 'culture wars' about gender, sexuality, youth and schools. Barrie Shannon is Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Their research focuses on educational issues for LGBTIQA+ youth, informed by intersectional feminism, queer theory, and critical pedagogy.

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