Johnson Ross, F; (2013) Are We Nearly There Yet? Struggling to Understand Young People as Sexual Subjects. Graduate Journal of Social Science , 10 (1) pp. 104-123.

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This paper seeks to explore how the academic concept of ‘sexual subjectivity’ appears in government Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) publications (researched between 2000 and 2010), and the understandings of key stakeholders. This follows work by Louisa Allen (and others), suggesting that there is a knowledge/practice gap within school-based SRE, which could be addressed by acknowledging young people as legitimate sexual subjects. Although much important work has been written on the concept of sexual subjectivity in wider popular and subcultural contexts, exploring the concept through an analysis of SRE curricula and stakeholders has much to contribute to the narrowing of the knowledge/practice gap. This could contribute to the training and self-reflection of practitioners, as well as assisting them in making the case for more balanced SRE guidelines. I conclude that a more confident and nuanced recognition of young people’s sexual subjectivity is also important in the context of contemporary panics over the sexualisation of young people.

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