‘I Didn’t Know How to Be with My Husband’: State-Religion Struggles over Sex Education in Israel and England
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Taragin-Zeller, L https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1886-4080
Kasstan, B https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9020-2954
Abstract
jats:pSex education presents a major dilemma for state‐minority relations, reflecting a conflict between basic rights to education and religious freedom. In this comparative ethnography of informal sex education among ultra‐Orthodox Jews (Haredim) in Israel and England, we frame the critical difference between “age‐appropriate” and “life‐stage” (marriage and childbirth) models of sex education. Conceptualizing these competing approaches as disputes over “knowledge responsibility,” we call for more context‐specific understandings of how educational responsibilities are envisioned in increasingly diverse populations.</jats:p>
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Gender, Judaism, religion, sex education, state
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Anthropology and Education Quarterly
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0161-7761
1548-1492
1548-1492
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52
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Wiley
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This research was funded by the Wellcome Trust (grant code: 101955/Z/13/Z), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israeli Democracy Institute