Taking Sex Seriously: Challenges in Teaching about Sexuality
| Autor: | Nancy J. Davis |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
Sexual violence
Sociology and Political Science Sexual attraction Teaching method media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 050301 education Gender studies Human sexuality 0506 political science Education Politics Heterosexuality 050602 political science & public administration Ideology Psychology 0503 education Social psychology media_common Classroom climate |
| Zdroj: | Teaching Sociology. 33:16-31 |
| ISSN: | 1939-862X 0092-055X |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0092055x0503300102 |
| Popis: | Teaching a course that is about sexuality but also about larger cultural themes, social processes, and political struggles poses many challenges. These include: 1) choosing readings from a sexuality literature that is ever-expanding; 2) negotiating student expectations that the course will focus on the sexual behavior of individuals when much of it is on sexual ideologies and sexual regimes; 3) allowing multiple voices to be heard in class, not just those of sexual libertines, sexual extraverts, and those with nonstigmatized sexual identities; 4) creating a safe classroom climate that allows personal disclosures about sexuality; 5) navigating the emotional intensity of discussing sexual violence and other issues cloaked in normativity, anxiety, and pain; 6) balancing student interest in the local with attention to the historical, comparative, and global; and 7) underscoring the potential for change in sexual scripts, sexual violence, and sexual regimes. This article explores these challenges and some strategies to address them. |
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