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‘I Didn’t Know How to Be with My Husband’: State‐Religion Struggles over Sex Education in Israel and England
Author(s) -
TaraginZeller Lea,
Kasstan Ben
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12358
Subject(s) - sociology , dilemma , state (computer science) , ethnography , context (archaeology) , gender studies , religious education , pedagogy , anthropology , epistemology , paleontology , philosophy , algorithm , computer science , biology
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.