Feminine sexual desire and shame in the classroom: an educator’s constructions of and investments in sexuality education

Saville Young, Lisa; Moodley, Dale D; Macleod, Catriona I

Title: Feminine sexual desire and shame in the classroom: an educator’s constructions of and investments in sexuality education
Creator: Saville Young, Lisa
Creator: Moodley, Dale D
Creator: Macleod, Catriona I
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2019
Date: 2019
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/444302
Identifier: vital:74215
Identifier: xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2018.1511974"
Description: Within the growing body of literature on sexuality education in South Africa, researchers have highlighted how teachers may face, or themselves be, barriers to the implementation of rights-based comprehensive sexuality education. Important issues with regard to educators are: firstly, the social and discursive space within which educators are located; and secondly, the complex emotional and psychic investments that educators take up within particular discourses and practices. This paper explores, through a psychosocial reading of an interview extract with a particular educator based in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, how discursive and psychic concerns are sutured within the complex subjectivity of the educator as the medium for sexual education in schools. Specifically, it highlights the numerous ways in which feminine sexuality and desire may be avoided, denied and silenced. Even when feminine desire is specifically evoked as in this case, it is done so in a way that ensures social and cultural respectability, thereby reproducing shame narratives that form and maintain traditional gender discourses. Our analysis demonstrates how engaging with educators as subjects with their own sexual history and psychic dynamics, and as individuals with raced, gendered and classed identities, is a potentially transformative perspective for effective sexuality education.
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Format: online resource
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Format: 1 online resource (15 pages)
Format: pdf
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Language: English
Relation: Sex Education
Relation: Saville Young, L., Moodley, D. and Macleod, C.I., 2019. Feminine sexual desire and shame in the classroom: an educator’s constructions of and investments in sexuality education. Sex Education, 19(4), pp.486-500
Relation: Sex Education volume 19 number 4 p. 486 2019 1472-0825
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