ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book talks about the "excesses of schools"—that is, those dimensions considered its 'fat' rather than its educational core. It aims to think about sexuality education as inhering in dimensions of schooling beyond the official sexuality curriculum. This requires more than a recognition that sexuality education can occur outside its designated subject area. Building on the findings of educational sociologists, sexuality researchers mapped how everyday schooling processes and practices create a unique context for the production of meanings about sexuality and sexual identities. Within the existing research, the organizational practices and processes which produce meanings about sexuality are typically understood as discursive. Delving into the realms of feminist new materialist thought, the book considers how things and meaning are co-constitutive in sexuality education's becoming at schooling.
