Section outline

  • The Regulation of Sexuality: Feminist and Queer Critiques

    Sept. 29             Ongoing Feminist Activism: Sex Education

                Read:

    ·      “The Word Made Flesh”: Language, Authority, and Sexual Desire in Late Nineteenth-Century America (252-264.

    ·      Zimmerman, Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education, CHAPTER FOUR A Right to Knowledge? Culture, Diversity, and Sex Education in the Age of AIDS, 1984– 2010 and Conclusion.

     

    In class documentary film viewing and discussion of: Sex(ed) How did you Learn About Sex?

    Due: Reading Response and Reflection: Respond to Zimmerman and discuss what place and form sexual education should take today.  To help have the most up to date response please explore this link to current policies on sexual education by state through the USA.   And, why SEICUS believes they most matter.  And then examine the National Sex Education Standards in the United States: Do you agree with the curriculum?  Why or why not? Please mention which 3 recommendations would be most important to implement and why.