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This book explores different strands of thinking about sexuality education in contemporary urban India. It interrogates the limits of sexuality education as we know it today by rethinking adolescent masculinities in middle class urban India.
List of contents
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1
1 Different discourses on sexuality education: Examining sexuality education materials in urban India 17
2 'Nothing much happened': Rethinking heterosexual middle-class adolescent boys' romance in urban India 45
3 Learning about sex in urban India: Rethinking the sexual 'knowledge gap' debate in sexuality education 68
4 'I am a teacher, I think the worst': Teacher responsibilities and regulation of student romance in schools in Mumbai 101
Conclusion 118
References 125
Index 134
About the author
Ketaki Chowkhani is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, where she teaches India's first ever course on Singles Studies. Her writing on gender, sexuality, and singlehood has appeared in the
Indian Journal of Medical Ethics,
Journal of Porn Studies,
The New York Times,
Square Peg, and
The Hindu, as well as in edited volumes. She has a PhD in Women's Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, where she researched sexuality education and adolescent masculinities in urban India.
