This book offers educationalists new ways of understanding the significance of sexuality and gender in young people's lives and suggests ways in which this knowledge is useful in practice. Drawing on interviews with students and teachers, the author provides innovative analysis of the links between gender and sexuality and their engagement with school processes, popular culture and the world of work and leisure.

Mary Jane Kehily is a lecturer in Childhood Studies at the Open University.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Fragments from a fading career: personal narratives and emotional investments; Chapter 2 Ways of conceptualising sexuality, gender and schooling; Chapter 3 Producing heterosexualities: the school as a site of discursive practices; Chapter 4 Agony aunts and absences: an analysis of a sex education class; Chapter 5 More Sugar? Teenage magazines, gender displays and sexual learning; Chapter 6 Understanding masculinities: young men, heterosexuality and embodiment; Chapter 7 Sexing the subject: teachers, pedagogies and sex education; Chapter 8 Sexuality, gender and schooling reconsidered: notes towards a conclusion;