Critical Sexual Literacy

Acknowledgments; Introduction: What We Mean by Critical Sexual Literacy, Gilbert Herdt and Michelle Marzullo; Part One Sexual Literacy in Education and Research; 2 Critical Pedagogy in Sexuality Education: Moving Toward Student Sexual Literacy as a Human Right, Lisa M. Vallin; 3 Situational Analysis and Critical Sexuality Studies, Adele E. Clarke and Christoph Hanssmann; 4 Dispelling the Myths about Sexuality Education, Hon. Helen Clark; 5 Advocating Black Sexual Literacy in U.S. Sexuality Education Efforts, Jermisha J. Frazier; 6 Reading MacKinnon in San Francisco, Rita M. Melendez; 7 Arguing for Sexual Literacy in Fieldwork Preparation, Jerika Loren Heinze; 8 Celebrating Black Sexual Freedom: Prioritizing Accurate Research of Black Sexuality, Ericka Burns; 9 Vnokecetv: Two- Spirit Love at the BAAITS Powwow, Roger Kuhn; 10 White Fragility and Decolonizing Sexuality Research, Satori Madrone and Carole Clements; 11 Doing Critical Sexuality Studies, Michelle Marzullo; Part Two Sexual Literacy in Policy and Social Discourse; 12 Moral and Sex Panics: Barriers to Sexual Literacy, Gilbert Herdt; 13 Sexual Literacy Barriers for Intersex People, Angela Towne; 14 Childhood and Sexual Literacy, Allison Moore and Paul Reynolds; 15 Let’s Cancel the Circular Firing Squad: Arguing against Cancel Culture in the Classroom Toward the Sexual Literacy Journey, Nicole C. Polen- Petit; 16 Sexual Literacy and Sports: Moving Beyond the Binary in Favor of Evidence- Based Policies, Lisa Rapalyea; 17 Navigating Surrogacy as a Gay Man: A Personal and Professional Sexual Literacy Journey, Elliott Kronenfeld; 18 Sexually Fluid and Straight People in the Therapeutic Context, Caroline Paltin; 19 Reconsidering the Sexual Context of Non- Consensual Sexual Interactions, Janna Dickenson and Rebecca K. Blais; 20 The Global Gag Rule Expanded, Caitlin E. Gerdts; 21 A Reckoning: Marxism, Queer Theory and Political Economy, Holly Lewis; Part Three Sexual Literacy in Diverse Communities; 22 Becoming Critically Glocal: Beyond North and South, Individuals and Cultures in Understanding Sexual Literacies, Margaret Jolly; 23 Sexual Risks in Migrations to Reach Western Europe, Lynellyn D. Long; 24 Impact and Expansion of Social Networking on Sexual and Gender- Diverse Young People’s Sexual Literacy, Alexander L. Farquhar-Leicester; 25 Social Media and Sexual/ Gender Diversity among Young People in Thailand, Jan-Willem de Lind van Wijngaarden; 26 Queer Visibility and Recognition Online, Daniel Cockayne and Jen Jack Gieseking; 27 Errancy and Karma in Thailand: Glocal Sexual Health Literacy in the Name of the Aesthetic of Existence, Narupon Duangwises; 28 A Palm Springs Postcard: Understanding Sexual Literacy among Older Gay Men, Brian de Vries; 29 Glocality in the U.S. LGBT Rights Struggle, Sean Cahill; 30 Lifelong Sexual Literacy: A Universal Human Right for Sexual Minorities and Majorities, Gilbert Herdt and Stefan Lucke; Part Four Sexual Literacy in Health, Well-Being and Practice; 31 Sexual Literacy and Health: A Global Challenge, Deevia Bhana, Ekua Yankah and Peter Aggleton; 32 Reproductive Rights and Justice: Thinking through the Connections, Contradictions and Complexities, Elisabeth Berger Bolaza; 33 LGBT Minority Stress through a Glocal Lens, Sean G. Massey; 34 Redefining Sexual Competence, Stefan Lucke; 35 The Medicalization of the DSM: Reconceptualizing Human Sexuality and Gender, Megan Neitling; 36 “Our Body Is Our Own Body”: The Collective Bodies of Public Health, Katherine Lepani; 37 COVID- 19: Sexual and Reproductive Health, Terry McGovern, Kathryn Gibb and Batul Hassan; 38 Advocating for Sexual Literacy, Allison Moore and Paul Reynolds; Contributors; Index.

“Critical Sexual Literacy is an original, exciting volume that provides a necessary sexuality studies resource for students, teachers, and activists. The volume's impressive breadth of essays demonstrate the potential of its core concept, sexual literacy, to speak to the most pressing concerns shaping global conversations on sexuality.” — Brian A. Horton, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis University, US