This authoritative, state-of-the-art Handbook provides an authoritative overview of issues within sexuality education, coupled with ground-breaking discussion of emerging and unconventional insights in the field. It is an essential and comprehensive reference resource for academics, students and researchers of sexuality education that both demarcates the field and stimulates critical discussion of its edges.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• About the Editors and Contributors
• 1 Introduction to The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education - Louisa Allen and Mary Lou Rasmussen
• Part I Global Assemblages of Sexuality Education - Mary Jane Kehily and Anoop Nayak
• Preface
• 2 ‘Sex and History’: Talking Sex with Objects from the Past - Kate Fisher, Jen Grove and Rebecca Langlands
• 3 The Manufacture of Consensus: The Development of United Nations Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education - Ekua Yankah and Peter Aggleton
• 4 Sexuality Education in Ghana and Mozambique: An Examination of Colonising Assemblages Informing School-based Sexuality Education Initiatives - Esther Miedema and Georgina Yaa Oduro
• 5 More than “Just Learning About the Organs”: Embodied Story Telling as a Basis for Learning About Sex and Relationships - Kate Senior and Richard Chenhall
• 6 Faith, Progressive Sexuality Education, and Queer Secularism: Unsettling Associations - Mary Lou Rasmussen
• 7 The Cultural Politics of Sex Education in the Nordics - Stine H. Bang Svendsen
• 8 Teaching Sexuality, Teaching Religion: Sexuality Education and Religion in Canada - Heather Shipley
• 9 A Radical Plurality: Re-thinking Cultural and Religious Diversity in Sexuality Education - Louisa Allen and Kathleen Quinlivan
• 10 Learning from the Learners: How Research with Young People Can Provide Models of Good Pedagogic Practice in Sexuality Education in South Africa - Rob Pattman and Deevia Bhana
• Part II Sexualities Education in Schools - Sara I. McClelland and Michelle Fine
• Preface
• 11 Sexuality Education in Early Childhood - Kerry H. Robinson and Cristyn Davies
• 12 Preschool Sexuality Education?! - Karin A. Martin and Lacey Bobier
• 13 Pleasurable Blackness - Jennifer C. Nash
• 14 Sexuality Education in the Context of Mass Incarceration: Interruptions and Entanglements - Jessica Fields and Signy Toquinto
• 15 Sex Education, Youth, and Advocacy: Sexual Literacy, Critical Media, and Intergenerational Sex Education(s) - Marisa Ragonese, Christin P. Bowman and Deborah L. Tolman
• 16 Immigration, Undocumented Students, and Sexuality Education in Schools: Collapsing Borders - Leigh Patel and Lauren P. Saenz
• 17 Critically Sex/Ed: Asking Critical Questions of Neoliberal Truths in Sexuality Education - Laina Y. Bay-Cheng
• 18 Intersex Bodies in Sexuality Education: On the Edge of Cultural Difference - Annette Brömdal, Mary Lou Rasmussen, Fida Sanjakdar, Louisa Allen and Kathleen Quinlivan
• 19 ‘Getting It Right’? Producing Race and Gender in the Neoliberal School Based Sexuality Education Assemblage - Kathleen Quinlivan
• Part III Sexual Cultures, Entertainment Media, and Communication Technologies - Kath Albury and Alan McKee
• Preface
• 20 What Does the News Teach Young People About Sex? - Despina Chronaki
• 21 Touching Affect: The Pedagogy of Intimate and Banal Moments in Glee - Kyra Clarke
• 22 Learning About Mobile Sexual Identities from Queer as Folk - Rob Cover
• 23 Catolicadas: A Sexuality Education Animated Series - Evelyn Aldaz, Sandra Fosado and Ana Amuchástegui
• 24 Sex Bait: Sex Talk on Commercial Blogs as Informal Sexuality Education - Crystal Abidin
• 25 Social Media Bodies: Revealing the Entanglement of Sexual Well-being, Mental Health, and Social Media in Education - Natalie Ann Hendry
• 26 From Media Abstinence to Media Production: Sexting, Young People and Education - Kath Albury, Amy Adele Hasinoff and Th eresa Senft
• Part IV Re-animating What Else Sexuality Education Research Can Do, Be, and Become - Emma Renold and Jessica Ringrose
• Preface
• 27 Adolescence, Trans Phenomena, and the Politics of Sexuality Education - Gabrielle Owen
• 28 Possibilities for Pleasure: A Creative Approach to Including Pleasure in Sexuality Education - Ester McGeeney
• 29 Queer Departures into More-Than-Human Worlds - Affrica Taylor and Mindy Blaise
• 30 The Power of Things! A ‘New’ Ontology of Sexuality at School - Louisa Allen
• 31 Pin-Balling and Boners: The Posthuman Phallus and Intra-Activist Sexuality Assemblages in Secondary School - Emma Renold and Jessica Ringrose
• 32 Materialism and Micropolitics in Sexualities Education Research - Pam Alldred and Nick J. Fox
• 33 ‘Not Better, Just Different’: Reassembling Sexuality Education Research Through the Deleuzian ‘Posts’ - Ian Thomas