Sexuality, sexism and education: The views of feminists, past and present

Abstract

Building on the work of feminist writers and theorists from Victoria Woodhull to Barbara Ehrenreich, in issues such as the tying (and untying) of sex to reproduction and the roles of women and men as sexual initiators/sexual objects, the authors, themselves feminists, explore historical and current implications for education and for the resolving of sexual paradoxes. Many of the ideas presented here grew out of Selma Greenberg's 1978 book, Right From The Start: A Guide To Nonsexist Childrearing.