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Neither sex equity nor sexuality are new topics to educators, but little attention has been given to their combination. This book identifies critical issues that researchers, reformers, and educators have failed to address publicly. The authors show that it is necessary for educators to increase their understanding of ways that sex education can be sex equitable and ways that sexuality contributes to sex inequities in general education.
The book covers sexuality issues of special concern to minority, disabled, and homosexual students, latchkey children, and early parents. The discussions show why it is important to break the barriers of silence, confusion, and disunity to enable females and males of all ages to receive equal opportunities and outcomes in and through education.
"This book is groundbreaking in the analysis it brings to an ever-popular public concern. The combination of scholarship and activism is gracefully presented here, which should allow this important information to reach new audiences. The articles touch on 'taboo' topics with a firm pressure and depth of empathy which will bring readers with a variety of backgrounds toward a much deeper understanding of the quality of life issues involved. Susan Klein is one of the few people who could have brought this range of scholars together in such a thorough, sensitive way; she should be commended." — Barbara Richardson, Eastern Michigan University
I. Introductory Chapters
1. Sex Equity and Sexuality in Education: Breaking the Barriers
Susan Shurberg Klein
2. Sexism, Sexuality, and Education: Feminist Thought Then and Now
Selma Greenberg and Patricia B. Campbell
3. Passions and Power: Sexuality, Sex Equity, and Education in Historical Perspective
John Rury
4. Global Perspectives on Sexuality and Equity in Education
Nelly P. Stromquist
II. Sex-Equitable Sex Education
5. Goals for Sex-Equitable Sexuality Education
Mariamne H. Whatley
6. The Impact of Puberty and Sexual Activity upon the Health and Education of Adolescent Girls and Boys
Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
7. Sexism and Early Parenting: Cause and Effect?
Theresa Cusick
8. Sex Equity and Sexuality in College-Level Sex Education
Marilyn Myerson
III. Sexuality as a Factor in Sex Discrimination and Sex Stereotyping in Education
9. Emerging Equity Issues Related to Homosexuality in Education
Dolores A. Grayson
10. Breaking the Silence: Sexual and Gender-based Harassment in Elementary, Secondary, and Postsecondary Education
Karen Bogart, Sheila Simmons, Nan Stein and Evelyn P. Tomaszewski
11. Power, Politics, and Sexuality in Mentor-Protegee Relationships: Implications for Women's Achievement and Career Development
Marilyn Haring and Michele A. Paludi
12. Sexuality and Latchkey Children
Thomas J. Long and Lynette Long
13. The Role of Sexuality and Sex Equity in the Education of Minority Adolescents
Saundra Murray Nettles and Diane Scott-Jones
14. Disabled Women: The Myth of the Asexual Female
Corbett Joan O'Toole and Jennifer L. Bregante
IV. Ways to Address Sexuality and Sex Equity Simultaneously
15. Sex Equity Principles for Evaluating Sexuality Education Materials
Bonnie Trudell and Mariamne H. Whatley
16. Using Legal Resources and Community Action to Resist Sexual Harassment in Higher Education
Richard Barickman
V. Summary Recommendations for Educators
17. Sexuality and Sexism in School: How Should Educators Be Prepared?
Myra Sadker, David Sadker, and Charol Shakeshaft
Major Contributors