Description
Highlighting the voices less commonly showcased to the public – voices of young people, parents, and social and health practitioners – this book comments on gender and sexuality in the contexts of formal and informal education, peer cultures and non-conformity, social sustainability and equal rights.
At a time of mounting conservatism globally – when broader issues of equity and justice around sexuality and gender in education and health have come under attack – it is critical that health workers, social service practitioners and educators share approaches, stories, and data across these spaces to advocate for informative, inclusive approaches to sex, gender and sexuality education in an effort to speak back to the conservative voices which currently dominate policy spaces. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sex Education.
Table of Contents
Introduction – Gender and sexuality in education and health: voices advocating for equity and social
Justice Tania Ferfolja and Jacqueline Ullman
1. Dogma before diversity: the contradictory rhetoric of controversy and diversity in the
politicisation of Australian queer-affirming learning materials Barrie Shannon and Stephen J. Smith
2. ‘Is it like one of those infectious kind of things?’ The importance of educating young people about HPV and HPV vaccination at school Cristyn Davies, Susan Rachel Skinner, Tanya Stoney, Helen Siobhan Marshall, Joanne Collins, Jane Jones, Heidi Hutton, Adriana Parrella, Spring Cooper, Kevin McGeechan and Gregory Zimet, for the HPV.edu Study Group
3. Teacher positivity towards gender diversity: exploring relationships and school outcomes for transgender and gender-diverse students Jacqueline Ullman
4. That’s so homophobic? Australian young people’s perspectives on homophobic language use in secondary schools Karyn Fulcher
5. Knowing, performing and holding queerness: LGBTIQ+ student experiences in Australian tertiary education Andrea Waling and James A. Roffee
6. ‘That happened to me too’: young people’s informal knowledge of diverse genders and sexualities Paul Byron and Jessie Hunt
7. Responsibilities, tensions and ways forward: parents’ perspectives on children’s sexuality education Kerry H. Robinson, Elizabeth Smith and Cristyn Davies
8. Gender and sexuality diversity and schooling: progressive mothers speak out Tania Ferfolja and Jacqueline Ullman
9. Young people, sexuality and diversity. What does a needs-led and rights-based approach look like? Simon Blake, in conversation with Peter Aggleton
