Journal article
Materialising effects of difference in sex education: the 'absurd' banana penis
Gender and education, Vol.30(8), pp.1065-1077
17/11/2018
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Abstract
This article scrutinises pedagogical practices undergone in sexuality education as recorded with two intergenerational groups of former Australian schoolgirls. It discusses the surprising widespread use of the plastic, white, circumcised banana penis in sexuality education experienced by the younger group. The normalisation of the white, circumcised, plastic, banana penis (without reference to the vulva and/or vagina) is telling about what bodies matter and how sex materialises. The banana penis, as uncritically modelled in sexuality education, effectively materialises difference as both sexist and racist. This paper considers diffractive thinking in classroom with these practices, with students, and ways pedagogical practice may bring about a renormalisation that moves from reiterating racist heteronormative hierarchies to a creative opening up of ways students (as sexed, gendered and raced) can come to safely and affirmatively negotiate differences.
Details
- Title
- Materialising effects of difference in sex education: the 'absurd' banana penis
- Creators
- Melissa Joy Wolfe - Faculty of Education, Monash University
- Publication Details
- Gender and education, Vol.30(8), pp.1065-1077
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Identifiers
- 991012997896502368
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article