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This book aims to explore what queer thinking and new materialist feminist thought might offer the field of sexuality education. It argues that queer theory in education might be queered further by drawing on feminist new materialism and extending itself to subjects beyond sexual and gender identities/issues, including a focus on 'things'. Allen explores how new materialism as a form of queer thinking, might be brought to bear on other important issues of social justice such as, classroom cultural and religious diversity.
List of contents
1. Sexuality Education Matters.- 2. New Materialism: An Experiment in Queer Thinking.- 3. These Queer Things: Mobile Phones/Young People/School.- 4. The Power of Things! A 'New' Ontology of Sexualities at School.- 5. Sexual Choreographies of Schooling: Movement in Sexuality Education.- 6. A Radical Plurality: Re-Thinking Cultural and Religious Diversity in Sexuality Education.- 7. Learning About Sexuality 'Between' Home and School.- 8. Methodological Matters: The Becoming of Data About Sexuality at School.- 9. Never(end)ing: Propositions for Sexuality Education.
About the author
Louisa Allen is Professor of Education in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Summary
This book aims to explore what queer thinking and new materialist feminist thought might offer the field of sexuality education. It argues that queer theory in education might be queered further by drawing on feminist new materialism and extending itself to subjects beyond sexual and gender identities/issues, including a focus on ‘things’. Allen explores how new materialism as a form of queer thinking, might be brought to bear on other important issues of social justice such as, classroom cultural and religious diversity.
