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16 - Difficulties in the Study, Research, and Pedagogy of Sexuality

from Part II - How Do We Study Sexual Development?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

By
Deborah P. Britzman
Edited by
Sharon Lamb  and
Jen Gilbert
Sharon Lamb
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Jen Gilbert
Affiliation:
York University, Toronto
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Summary

This chapter presents a challenging paradox for those who study and/or teach young people; that while sexuality is the basis for our learning, it exceeds the capacities of language and is thus exceptionally difficult to represent. This chapter operates within a psychoanalytic framework and brings Freud's theories of sexuality and child development in conversation with Foucault's idea of sexuality as tied to social mechanisms of power. The chapter incorporates ideas from Kristeval, Sedgwick, and Rose to argue that the learning urgencies of sexuality and thought are useful "pathways for listening to the emotional logic of children and adolescents."
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The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
Childhood and Adolescence
 , pp. 315 - 335
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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