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The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education

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Editors:
  1. Louisa Allen

    1. Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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  2. Mary Lou Rasmussen

    1. School of Sociology Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

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  • Provides a definitive reference point for sexuality education scholars
  • Collects 32 contributions from 12 countries to both demarcate the field and stimulate critical discussion of its edges
  • Offers rich and multidisciplinary essays from renowned experts and rising stars in the field
  • Highlights the variety of environments and spaces that sexuality education inhabits and is taught in
  • Emphasises how essential sexuality education is for communities around the globe

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. Introduction to The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education

    • Louisa Allen, Mary Lou Rasmussen
    Pages 1-19

  3. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-27
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    2. ‘Sex and History’: Talking Sex with Objects from the Past

      • Kate Fisher, Jen Grove, Rebecca Langlands
      Pages 29-51Open Access

    3. The Manufacture of Consensus: The Development of United Nations Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education

      • Ekua Yankah, Peter Aggleton
      Pages 53-68

    4. Sexuality Education in Ghana and Mozambique: An Examination of Colonising Assemblages Informing School-based Sexuality Education Initiatives

      • Esther Miedema, Georgina Yaa Oduro
      Pages 69-93

    5. More than “Just Learning About the Organs”: Embodied Story Telling as a Basis for Learning About Sex and Relationships

      • Kate Senior, Richard Chenhall
      Pages 95-114

    6. Faith, Progressive Sexuality Education, and Queer Secularism: Unsettling Associations

      • Mary Lou Rasmussen
      Pages 115-135

    7. The Cultural Politics of Sex Education in the Nordics

      • Stine H. Bang Svendsen
      Pages 137-155

    8. Teaching Sexuality, Teaching Religion: Sexuality Education and Religion in Canada

      • Heather Shipley
      Pages 157-176

    9. A Radical Plurality: Re-thinking Cultural and Religious Diversity in Sexuality Education

      • Louisa Allen, Kathleen Quinlivan
      Pages 177-189

    10. Learning from the Learners: How Research with Young People Can Provide Models of Good Pedagogic Practice in Sexuality Education in South Africa

      • Rob Pattman, Deevia Bhana
      Pages 191-210

  4. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-215
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    2. Sexuality Education in Early Childhood

      • Kerry H. Robinson, Cristyn Davies
      Pages 217-242

    3. Preschool Sexuality Education?!

      • Karin A. Martin, Lacey Bobier
      Pages 243-259

    4. Pleasurable Blackness

      • Jennifer C. Nash
      Pages 261-278

    5. Sexuality Education in the Context of Mass Incarceration: Interruptions and Entanglements

      • Jessica Fields, Signy Toquinto
      Pages 279-300

    6. Sex Education, Youth, and Advocacy: Sexual Literacy, Critical Media, and Intergenerational Sex Education(s)

      • Marisa Ragonese, Christin P. Bowman, Deborah L. Tolman
      Pages 301-325

    7. Immigration, Undocumented Students, and Sexuality Education in Schools: Collapsing Borders

      • Leigh Patel, Lauren P. Saenz
      Pages 327-342

    8. Critically Sex/Ed: Asking Critical Questions of Neoliberal Truths in Sexuality Education

      • Laina Y. Bay-Cheng
      Pages 343-367
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About this book

This authoritative, state-of-the-art Handbook provides an authoritative overview of issues within sexuality education, coupled with ground-breaking discussion of emerging and unconventional insights in the field. With 32 contributions from 12 countries it definitively traces the landscape of issues, theories and practices in sexuality education globally.  These rich and multidisciplinary essays are written by renowned critical sexualities studies experts and rising stars in this area and grouped under four main areas:
  • Global Assemblages of Sexuality Education
  • Sexualities Education in Schools
  • Sexual Cultures, Entertainment Media and Communication Technologies
  • Re-animating What Else Sexuality Education Research Can Do, Be and Become
Importantly, this Handbook does not equate sexuality education with safer sex education nor understand this subject as confined to school based programmes. Instead, sexuality education is understood more broadly and to occur in spaces as diverse as community settings and entertainment media, and via communication technologies. It is an essential and comprehensive reference resource for academics, students and researchers of sexuality education that both demarcates the field and stimulates critical discussion of its edges.  


Chapter 2 is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Louisa Allen

  • School of Sociology Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

    Mary Lou Rasmussen

About the editors

Louisa Allen is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She specialises in research in the areas of sexualities, young people and schooling and innovative research methodologies which seek to engage hard to reach research populations and examines these areas most recently through the lenses of queer and feminist new materialist theoretical frameworks. She has written four books, the latest co-edited with Mary Lou Rasmussen and Kathleen Quinlivan, entitled The Politics of Pleasure in Sexuality Education: Pleasure Bound. 
Mary Lou Rasmussen is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. Her expertise is in gender, sexualities and education. She is also interested in young people’s beliefs about religions and non-religious world views, and in secularism and sexuality education and one of her recent books is Progressive Sexuality Education: The Conceits of Secularism.

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