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Culture wars in South Australia: the sex education debates.
- Source :
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Australian Journal of Social Issues (Australian Council of Social Service) . Spring2008, Vol. 43 Issue 3, p499-516. 18p. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- School sexuality education has been a component of Australia's successful and internationally recognized HIV/AIDS strategy since the 1980s and has been well accepted in the community. However South Australia is experiencing a re-emergence of opposition to school sexuality education orchestrated by groups associated with the United States-based Christian Right. In this paper I will outline sex education policy developments in Australia and the United States as a framework for discussing the controversy generated around the Sexual Health and Relationships Education (SHARE) program in South Australia in 2003. In doing so I give attention to the similarities between the strategies deployed by the opponents of SHARE and those used to install abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education as national policy in the United States. I will argue that, rather than a phenomenon indigenous to South Australia, these debates are part of an international movement to progress the political goals of the Christian Right. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01576321
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Australian Journal of Social Issues (Australian Council of Social Service)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 35368172
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1839-4655.2008.tb00115.x