Contributors

Introduction: Knowing Dangerously

Debbie Epstein

James T. Sears

Part One: Sexualities as Myth and Signification

Myths and Fictions in Modern Sexualities

Jeffrey Weeks

Sex Play: Romantic Significations, Sexism and Silences in the Schoolyard

Debbie Epstein

The Birds and the Bees: Narratives of Sexuality in Television Natural History Programmes

Barbara Crowther

Pedagogic Panic or Deconstructive Dilemma? Gay Genes in the Popular Press

Deborah Lynn Steinberg

Part Two: Sexualities as Globalization and Commodification

Sex in the World

R. W. Connell

In(ter)ventions of Male Sexualities and HIV Education: Case Studies in the Philippines

James T. Sears

The Internationalization of Gay and Lesbian Identities

Dennis Altman

Part Three: Sexualities as Identities

Sexing the Globe

Michelle Fine

Corrine Bertram

Discipline and Homophobia in South African Schools: The Limits of Legislated Transformation

Roger Deacon

Robert Morrell

Jeanne Prinsloo

Race, Sexuality and Education: What Does It Mean to Be Aboriginal and Gay in Education in Australia?

John Holmes

Abortion and Family Values: The X Case, Sexuality and `Irishness'

Lisa Smyth

Withes, Faggots, Dykes and Poofters: Moments of Danger and the Realms of Subjectivity

Vicki Crowley

Part Four: Interventions in Sexualities

The `Homosexual Agenda' Goes to School

Mariamne H. Whatley

Queer as Fuck? Exploring the Potential of Queer Pedagogies in Researching School Experiences of Lesbian and Gay Youth

Kathleen Quinlivan

Shane Town

`No Fear' in Our School

Lori Beckett

Mary Tweed

Sibyl Fisher

Sexuality and Subversion: University Peer Sexuality Educators and the Possibilities for Change

Rebecca F. Plante

`Multicultural Does Not Mean Multisexual': Social Justice and the Interweaving of Ethnicity and Sexuality in Australian Schooling

Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli

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