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Girls, Boys, and Junior Sexualities: Exploring Children Gender and Sexual Relations in the Primary Schoolreviewed by Catherine Ashcraft - November 13, 2006 Title: Girls, Boys, and Junior Sexualities: Exploring Children Gender and Sexual Relations in the Primary School Author(s): Emma Renold Publisher: Routledge/Falmer, New York ISBN: 0415314976, Pages: 206, Year: 2005 Search for book at Amazon.com Coz my sister knows that Im going through the stage coz my sisters two years older than me and she knows that er shes been through the stage before and she knows that Im growing up and I want to know about it
She goes to the shop and just buys me a magazine like with all the stuff in and like sex pages and everything
Yeah it [sex education video] hasnt got enough detail (Pete, Year 6 student, p. 140).
These are troubled times for youth sexualities. Regressive educational policies and alarmist public rhetoric permeate many a national conversation around youth, sexuality, and sex education. This is particularly true in the U.S. where, in the past decade alone, federal funding for abstinence-only programs has tripled (Dailard, 2002). Not one dime of this funding goes to comprehensive sex educationthe only programs consistently supported by two decades of scientific research (e.g. Kirby, 2001, 1999;... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Catherine Ashcraft
University of Colorado, Boulder Catherine Ashcraft is a Research Scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her current research focuses on how schooling, popular culture, and public rhetoric interact to shape student identities and educational experiences, particularly in terms of sexuality, gender, race, and class. Her most recent publications include "Girl, you better go get you a condom": Popular culture and teen sexuality as resources for critical multicultural curriculum in Teachers College Record and "Ready or not?": Teen sexuality and the troubling discourse of readiness" in Anthropology & Education Quarterly.
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