Sexual Subjects Young People, Sexuality and

Educating young people about sex and sexuality remains one of the most controversial and political areas of the school curriculum. Drawing on young people's own understandings of their sexual selves, knowledge and practices Sexual Subjects considers the implications for how we conceptualize the effectiveness of sexuality education. Reshaping thinking around youthful (hetero)sexualities Sexual Subjects challenges current approaches to teaching about sex and sexuality.

Louisa Allen is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

List of Tables

ix

Acknowledgments

x

Introduction

1

(14)

Locating the research

1

(6)

Conceptual frameworks

7

(5)

Structure of the book

12

(3)

Researching Sexuality: Methodological Complexities

15

(20)

Locating the researcher

15

(1)

Methodological framework

16

(4)

Accessing a sample for research on sexuality

20

(4)

Designing the methods and analysing data

24

(5)

Through my `I': The researcher/researched relationship

29

(6)

Sperm Meets Egg? Young People's Conceptualisations of Sexual Knowledge

35

(27)

The constitution of sexual knowledge within sexuality education programmes

36

(3)

Young people's constitution of sexual knowledge

39

(11)

What young people say they know about sexual knowledge

50

(2)

Sources of sexual knowledge

52

(4)

The relationship between knowledge and practice: young people's perceptions

56

(4)

So what does this mean for sexuality education?

60

(2)

Sexual Subjects: Young People's Sexual Subjectivities

62

(32)

Recognising the sexual self

63

(3)

Describing the sexual self

66

(5)

Discourses and sexual subject positions

71

(15)

Discursive manoeuvres: performing sexuality in the research context

86

(5)

Concluding comments

91

(3)

`Like I'm floating somewhere ten feet in the air': Experiencing the Sexual Body

94

(22)

Bodies of theory

95

(3)

Young women's narratives of sexual embodiment

98

(3)

Young men's narratives of sexual embodiment

101

(3)

Sexual disembodiment and dysembodiment

104

(8)

Implications of a continuum of embodiment for the `gap' equation

112

(2)

Conclusion

114

(2)

Desire, Pleasure, Power: Understanding Young People's Sexual Relationships

116

(29)

The couple context: young people's (hetero)sexual practices

117

(6)

Pleasure and desire in relationships

123

(6)

Negotiating sexual activity in relationships

129

(7)

Knowledge `in' practice

136

(5)

Knowledge `in' practice: negative consequences

141

(2)

Conclusion

143

(2)

Constituting a Discourse of Erotics in Sexuality Education

145

(20)

Conceptualising a discourse of erotics

146

(2)

Findings which support the inclusion of a discourse of erotics in sexuality education

148

(5)

Implications of a discourse of erotics for particular sectors of the youth population

153

(10)

A final note

163

(2)

Closing Thoughts and Future Directions

165

(10)

Main research findings

165

(3)

Implications for sexuality education

168

(4)

Directions for future research

172

(3)

Appendix

175

(2)

Notes

177

(4)

References

181

(12)

Copyright Acknowledgements

193

(1)

Index

194

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