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oapen-20.500.12657-524742022-01-18T13:19:14Z Against Sex Education Howlett, Caitlin Education Education Policy and Politics (Education) Philosophy of Education (Education) Sexuality and Gender (Politics) Monograph bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education::JNA Philosophy & theory of education::JNAM Moral & social purpose of education 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. 2022-01-18T13:07:53Z 2022-01-18T13:07:53Z 2021 book ONIX_20220118_9781350178465_6 9781350178465 9781350178441 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52474 eng Radical Politics and Education application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781350178465.epub Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781350178472 10.5040/9781350178472 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781350178465 9781350178441 Bloomsbury Academic 184 London open access
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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.
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