Predator and Prey?: A Feminist Critique How Male and Female Sexuality is Represented in High School Sex Ed

Location

Ostrander

Start Date

13-4-2004 12:45 PM

End Date

13-4-2004 2:30 PM

Student's Major

Gender and Women's Studies

Student's College

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Mentor's Name

Susan Freeman

Mentor's Department

Gender and Women's Studies

Mentor's College

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Description

Sexual education in the United States has always been an issue of controversy as teachers, parents, administrators, and politicians work together and against each other to decide what students should and should not learn about sex. This project examined the degree to which comprehensive and abstinence-only adolescent sexual education guidelines employ gender stereotypes as well as traditional ideas about gender. Through feminist evaluation and comparison of the widely recognized comprehensive sexual education guidelines provided by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States and the popular abstinence only Texas based program. Aim for Success, this project revealed assumptions about gender differences in adolescent sexual education today and how these assumptions teach teenagers the appropriate behavior for their gender and sex. This research began a larger project of evaluating sexual education in the United States and what teens are really being taught in today's political climate of abstinence and conservative sexual health.

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Predator and Prey?: A Feminist Critique How Male and Female Sexuality is Represented in High School Sex Ed

Ostrander

Sexual education in the United States has always been an issue of controversy as teachers, parents, administrators, and politicians work together and against each other to decide what students should and should not learn about sex. This project examined the degree to which comprehensive and abstinence-only adolescent sexual education guidelines employ gender stereotypes as well as traditional ideas about gender. Through feminist evaluation and comparison of the widely recognized comprehensive sexual education guidelines provided by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States and the popular abstinence only Texas based program. Aim for Success, this project revealed assumptions about gender differences in adolescent sexual education today and how these assumptions teach teenagers the appropriate behavior for their gender and sex. This research began a larger project of evaluating sexual education in the United States and what teens are really being taught in today's political climate of abstinence and conservative sexual health.