"The Stubborn Clutter, The Undeniable Record, The Burning, Wilful Evidence": Teaching the History of Sexuality

This paper addresses the thorny issues of teaching the history of sexuality from a feminist, sex-positive, anti-racist framework. The authorrelates her own pedagogical strategies in an effort to claim legitimacy for "sex history," in opposition to historians who maintain that sex has no place in the construction of the Canadian nation and its citizens.Cet article adresse la question epineuse de 1'enseignement de I'histoire de la sexualite dans le cadre prosexe, antiraciste feministe. L'auteure se rapporte a ses propres theories pedagogiques pou esayer de declarer la legitimite de "I'histoire du sexe", en opposition aux historiens qui maintiennent que le sexe n'a pas de place dans I'edification de la nation canadienne et de ses citoyens