16.018 - Sexuality, Social Justice, and Schooling: A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium features a range of scholarship focusing on three cross-cutting themes: sexuality, social justice, and schooling. The authors investigate an array of issues—from recognition of LGBTQ people in schools and in the wider community, to the politics and ethics of sexual consent, to the justifiability of “steering” students to predetermined conclusions about hot-button topics—that complement and extend the themes; and they bring different disciplinary perspectives, methodologies, and insights to bear in their analyses. The overarching goal of the symposium is to deepen our collective understanding and appreciation for the complexity of pressing matters pertaining to sexuality, social justice, and schooling.

Sub Unit

• Committee on Scholars and Advocates for Gender Equity in Education

Chair

• Gail Stern, Catharsis Productions

Papers

• Recognition Beyond Bullying: Resisting Neoliberal Understandings of LGBTQ Sexuality in U.S. Schools - Jessica Fields, San Francisco State University; Jen Gilbert, York University; Nancy L. Lesko, Teachers College, Columbia University; Laura Mamo

• Propriety, Property, and Consent in the United States, 1880–1920 - Lisa Andersen, The Juilliard School

• Rethinking Consent and Its Place in the Sex Education Curriculum - Josh Corngold, University of Tulsa

• "Her Choice": Neoliberal Obstacles to Understanding Consent, Rape, and Objectification in a Sex Education Classroom - Sharon Lamb, University of Massachusetts - Boston; Renee Randazzon

• Steering the Sex Education Discussion - Paula McAvoy, University of Wisconsin - Madison