‘I Didn’t Know How to Be with My Husband’: State‐Religion Struggles over Sex Education in Israel and England
Taragin‐Zeller, Lea;
Kasstan, Ben;
(2021)
‘I Didn’t Know How to Be with My Husband’: State‐Religion Struggles over Sex Education in Israel and England.
Anthropology and education quarterly, 52 (1).
pp. 5-20.
ISSN 0161-7761
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12358
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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.