Sexual Citizenship: Sexuality Education for a Globalizing World

• In Event: Roundtable Session 29
  In Roundtable Session: Transgressing National Boundaries, Troubling LGBTA (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Allies) Histories, Identities, Sexualities

Abstract

In this paper I explore what the notion of sexual citizenship in a globalising world might mean both conceptually and methodologically. Building on the work of Lamb (in press; 2010) I draw on queer, feminist post-structural and post-colonial theoretical and methodological paradigms to explore the ways in which subjugated knowledges and diverse epistemological paradigms can be utilised to explore issues of cultural and sexual difference in sexuality education. Utilising initial data gathered from young people participating in an Australasian research project exploring ways in which sexuality education can respond to cultural and religious difference (authors, 2011), I explore the potential and problems inherent in holding differing world views in productive tension.

Author

• Kathleen Anne Quinlivan, University of Canterbury