Childhood Sexuality and Aids Education - The Price of Innocence

This volume addresses the question of children's understanding of AIDS, not simply in terms of their dependence but as active participants in the interpretation of their social worlds.

List of contents

1. The Price of Innocence in the Time of AIDS 2. AIDS, Sex, and Disease: How Much Do Boys and Girls Know? 3. AIDS and Stigma: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality and Inequalities in Children’s Response to Disease 4. "AIDS Is Rape!" Gender and Sexuality in Children’s Responses to AIDS 5. AIDS and Age: Children Negotiating and Resisting Sexual Knowledge 6. AIDS, Not Sex! Teaching Innocence 7. True for All Mothers? Normalising Childhood Innocence 8. To Fight Against AID S, Put Children First: Rethinking Boys, Girls and Childhood Sexuality

About the author

Deevia Bhana is Professor in the School of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Summary

This volume addresses the question of children’s understanding of AIDS, not simply in terms of their dependence but as active participants in the interpretation of their social worlds.

Product details

• Authors: Deevia Bhana, Bhana Deevia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2015
• EAN: 9781138853003
• ISBN: 978-1-138-85300-3
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; EDUCATION / General, Africa, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Personal & public health, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Moral and social purpose of education, Development Studies, Pre-school & kindergarten, Personal and public health / health education, Pre-school and kindergarten, Moral & social purpose of education, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Health & Sexuality, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases & Conditions / AIDS & HIV