The Sexuality Curriculum and Youth Culture

Contents: Dennis Carlson/Donyell L. Roseboro: Introduction - Dennis Carlson: Constructing the Adolescent Body: Cultural Studies and Sexuality Education - Sharon Lamb: The Place of Mutuality and Care in Democratic Sexuality Education: Incorporating the Other Person - Tema Okun/C. P. Gause: What's Love Got to Do with It?: The Imperative of Authentic Desire - Glenn M Hudak: Alone in the Presence of Others: Autistic Sexuality and Intimacy Reconsidered - Kristen Luschen: The Politics of Information: Prevention Education, Individual Choice and the Gendered Politics of Blame - Joe Wegwert: LGBTQ Youth and the Hidden Curriculum of Citizenship Education: A "Day of Silence" in a Suburban High School - Odile Mattiauda: Youth Constructing Meanings of Gender in the Sexuality Education Classroom - Bettina L. Love: Where Are the White Girls?: A Qualitative Analysis of How Six African American Girls Made Meaning of Their Sexuality, Race and Gender through the Lens of Rap - Ajamu A. Banjoko: Adolescent African American Males and Hegemonic Aggressive Masculinity - Vivian Arviso/Shirley Waterhouse/Susie A. John/Gloria Hale/Glojean Todacheene/Janet Slowman-Chee/Dorinda Welle: Building a Navajo Curriculum for Life: Iina - Pamela K. Smith: The Prom as a Spectacle of Heteronormativity - Leslee Grey: Sexuality Education: Lessons from Drag Kings - Henry A. Giroux: Teenage Sexuality, Body Politics, and the Pedagogy of Display - Shirley Steinberg: The Celluloid Sexuality Curriculum: Deconstructing Teen Films - Elizabeth J. Meyer: She's the Man: Deconstructing the Gender and Sexuality Curriculum at "Hollywood High" - Stephanie Troutman: The Cautionary Whale, Viking, Vessel, Planet or Saint? Adolescence and Maternal Configuration in Juno and Beyond - Carol Siegel: The Twilight of Sexual Liberation: Undead Abstinence Ideology - Greg Dimitriadis: Coming Back to the Text Again: Leslie Fiedler on Popular Culture, Sexuality, and Pedagogy - Nicole Aydt Klein/Linda J. Markowitz/Laurel Puchner/Jill

Dennis Carlson is a professor of cultural studies of education at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and is Director of a Ford Foundation grant project, Re-framing Sexuality Education. He is the author of a number of books and co-edited volumes focusing on the meaning of democratic education in new times, and on the intersections of youth culture, popular culture, and the curriculum.
Donyell L. Roseboro is an assistant professor of secondary education and foundations at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. She holds a PhD in curriculum, teaching, and cultural studies from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and has recently published journal articles in Equity & Excellence in Education, The Journal of Educational Foundations, Teaching & Learning: The Journal of Natural Inquiry and Reflective Practice, and Learning for Democracy.