‘Just say no’: public dissent over sexuality education and the Canadian national imaginary
| dc.contributor.author | Bialystok, Lauren | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wright, JJ (Jessica) | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-24T20:17:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-01-24T20:17:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Scholars of sexuality have argued that ‘moral panics’ about sexuality often stand in for broader conflicts over nationality and belonging. Canada has spent decades cultivating a national image founded on multiculturalism and democratic equality. The Ontario sexuality education curriculum introduced in 2015 drew audible condemnation from a variety of groups. Drawing from Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Race Theory, we argue that the public discourse surrounding these protests exposed the limits of Canadian pluralism, fuelling a meta-debate about the ‘Canadianness’ of recent immigrants and the incompatibility of liberal values with those of non-Westerners, especially Muslims. We explain this in terms of contextual factors such as Ontario’s publicly funded Catholic school system and anti-Muslim xenophobia in the post-9/11 era. Our analysis speaks to the importance of intersectional social justice efforts as part of the movement for comprehensive sex education. | |
| dc.description.uri | https://library.macewan.ca/cgi-bin/SFX/url.pl/EAW | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Lauren Bialystok & Jessica Wright (2019) ‘Just Say No’: public dissent over sexuality education and the Canadian national imaginary, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 40:3, 343-357, https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2017.1333085 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2017.1333085 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/3393 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | All Rights Reserved | |
| dc.subject | sex education | |
| dc.subject | national identity | |
| dc.subject | public discourse | |
| dc.subject | critical discourse analysis | |
| dc.subject | critical race theory | |
| dc.subject | multiculturalism | |
| dc.subject | Ontario Canada | |
| dc.title | ‘Just say no’: public dissent over sexuality education and the Canadian national imaginary | en |
| dc.type | Article |