TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fields,Jessica
TI  - Risky Lessons: Sex Education and Social Inequality 
T2  - Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
SN  - 9780813543345
U1  - 613.9071/20973 22
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Sex instruction for children
KW  - United States
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Introduction: Asking More of Sex Education --; 2. Differences and Divisions: Social Inequality in Sex Education Debates and Policies --; 3. The Prophylactic of Talk: Sex Education’s Competing Lessons on Sexual Communication --; 4. Natural and Ideological: Depicting Bodies in Sex Education --; 5. Embattled Knowledge: Curiosity and Understanding in Sex Education --; 6. Conclusion: Policy, Practice, and Sexuality Education --; Methodological Appendix --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Curricula in U.S. public schools are often the focus of heated debate, and few subjects spark more controversy than sex education. While conservatives argue that sexual abstinence should be the only message, liberals counter that an approach that provides comprehensive instruction and helps young people avoid sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy is necessary. Caught in the middle are the students and teachers whose everyday experiences of sex education are seldom as clear-cut as either side of the debate suggests. Risky Lessons brings readers inside three North Carolina middle schools to show how students and teachers support and subvert the official curriculum through their questions, choices, viewpoints, and reactions. Most important, the book highlights how sex education's formal and informal lessons reflect and reinforce gender, race, and class inequalities. Ultimately critical of both conservative and liberal approaches, Fields argues for curricula that promote social and sexual justice. Sex education's aim need not be limited to reducing the risk of adolescent pregnancies, disease, and sexual activity. Rather, its lessons should help young people to recognize and contend with sexual desires, power, and inequalities
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813544991
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