The Limits of Sexuality Education

ISBN-13: 9781032150413 / Twarda / 2023 / 124 str.

India.) Ch Karnataka Ketaki (Manipal Centre for Humanities

Opis

This book explores different strands of thinking about sexuality education in contemporary urban India. It interrogates the limits of sexuality education as we know it today by rethinking adolescent masculinities in middle class urban India.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments. Introduction 1. Different Discourses on Sexuality Education: Examining Sexuality Education Materials in Urban India 2. “Nothing Much Happened”: Rethinking Heterosexual Middle Class Adolescent Boys’ Romance in Urban India 3. Learning about Sex in Urban India: Rethinking the ‘Knowledge Gap’ Debate in Sexuality Education 4. “I am a Teacher, I Think the Worst”: Teacher Responsibilities and Regulation of Student Romance in Schools in Urban India 5. Conclusion. References. Index.

O autorze

Ketaki Chowkhani is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Manipal Centre for Humanities, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, where she teaches India's first ever course on Singles Studies. Her writing on gender, sexuality, and singlehood has appeared in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, Journal of Porn Studies, The New York Times, Square Peg, The Hindu, as well as in edited volumes. She has a PhD in Women's Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, where she researched sexuality education and adolescent masculinities in urban India.