Publication

2012 - Routledge, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

49,250 words, Guess

Page Count

197 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • DDC306.70835/0973
  • LCCHQ27 .C362 2012

Description

"The Education of Eros is the first and only comprehensive history of sexuality education and the "problem" of adolescent sexuality from the mid-20th century to the beginning of the 21st. It explores how professional health educators, policy makers, and social and religious conservatives differed in their approaches, and battled over what gets taught about sexuality in schools, but all shared a common understanding of the adolescent body and adolescent desire as a problem that required a regulatory and disciplinary education. It also looks the rise of new social movements in civil society and the academy in the last half of the 20th century that began to re-frame the "problem" of adolescent sexuality in a language of rights, equity, and social justice. Situated within critical social theories of sexuality, this book offers a tool for re-framing the conversation about adolescent sexuality and reconstructing the meaning of sexuality education in a democratic society. "--

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Studies in curriculum theory series

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