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15 - Loving Possibilities in Studies of Sexuality Education and Youth

from Part II - How Do We Study Sexual Development?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Sharon Lamb
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Jen Gilbert
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
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Summary

This chapter proposes an approach to research about young people and sexuality in which emotions are understood as methodological signals. They indicate a rupture in conventional methodology and can orient researchers toward possibility and opportunity. Pointing to young peoples' unequal position along an age-based axis of power, the authors argue for an orientation to sex education and research about young peoples' sexuality that attends to love, rather than one that gets stuck in fear and concern.
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
Childhood and Adolescence
, pp. 300 - 314
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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