Abstract
Sex 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.
| Original language | American English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5-20 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Anthropology and Education Quarterly |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2021 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was funded by the Wellcome Trust (grant code: 101955/Z/13/Z), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Israeli Democracy Institute. We thank Nurit Stadler and Katie Gaddini as well as the anonymous peer reviewers and the Anthropology and Education Quarterly editorial team for their helpful feedback. Lea Taragin‐Zeller thanks her colleagues at the Woolf Institute and the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc) at the University of Cambridge and the Technion, and Ben Kasstan thanks his colleagues at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for their ongoing support. Acknowledgements.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 The Authors. Anthropology & Education Quarterly published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Anthropological Association
Keywords
- Gender
- Judaism
- religion
- sex education
- state