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Popular film and television hold valuable potential for learning
about sex and sexuality beyond the information-based model of sex
education currently in schools. This book argues that the
representation of complicated-or "messy"-relationships in these
popular cultural forms makes them potent as affective pedagogical
moments. It endeavours to develop new sexual literacies by
contemplating how pedagogical moments, that is, fleeting moments
which disrupt expectations or create discomfort, might enrich the
available discourses of sexuality and gender, especially those
available to adolescents. In Part One, Clarke critiques the
heteronormative discourses of sex education that produce youth in
particularly gendered ways, noting that "rationality" is often
expected to govern experiences that are embodied and arguably
inherently incoherent. Part Two explores public intimacy,
contemplating the often overlapping and confused boundaries between
public and private.
Popular film and television hold valuable potential for learning
about sex and sexuality beyond the information-based model of sex
education currently in schools. This book argues that the
representation of complicated-or "messy"-relationships in these
popular cultural forms makes them potent as affective pedagogical
moments. It endeavours to develop new sexual literacies by
contemplating how pedagogical moments, that is, fleeting moments
which disrupt expectations or create discomfort, might enrich the
available discourses of sexuality and gender, especially those
available to adolescents. In Part One, Clarke critiques the
heteronormative discourses of sex education that produce youth in
particularly gendered ways, noting that "rationality" is often
expected to govern experiences that are embodied and arguably
inherently incoherent. Part Two explores public intimacy,
contemplating the often overlapping and confused boundaries between
public and private.
This book provides a contemporary review of the social practices
and representations of flirting. In the wake of #MeToo, flirting
has become entangled with stories of harassment and abuse that have
generated both outrage and confusion. Nevertheless, this book
argues that negotiating intimacy has always been an ambiguous
social practice that can be risky and fraught, and examines how the
presiding perception of flirting is constructed in contemporary
cultural media. The book interrogates the relation between flirting
and scandal, the kinds of scripts available in popular culture, and
relations to feminism and other current social theories around
gender and sexuality. It asks the questions; how can desire be
declared? How can playfulness be understood? And what kind of
language is available to speak about these complexities? Drawing
from a range of media forms such as public scandal, reality
television, and teen film, Flirting in the Era of #MeToo argues
that contemporary flirting is both provocative and conservative in
its negotiation of an assemblage of shifting values, and considers
possibilities for social innovation and change in light of these
competing tensions.
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