Sexualities education and sexual citizenship. A materialist approach (original) (raw)

To cite: Alldred, P. and Fox, N.J. (2019) Sexualities education and sexual citizenship. A materialist approach. In: Aggleton, P., Cover, R., Leahy, D., Marshall, D. and Rasmussen, M.L. (eds.) Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 118-133. Abstract Teachers, school nurses and youth workers approach sexualities education differently, with young people being framed respectively as 'innocent', pre-sexual beings at risk of corruption by sexual knowledge or practice; as rational decision makers with legitimate sexual health needs or concerns; or as sexual citizens whose empowerment might be supported by individual and social/community level interventions. This chapter places these differing models of sexualities education within a relational approach to sexual citizenship, tracing the sexuality-education assemblages that emerge in the intra-actions between young people and these professionals, and the capacities (sexual and otherwise) they produce in bodies.