Professor Rasmussen focuses on building transdisciplinary understandings of sexuality education across diverse lifeworlds, taking account of issues related to sexual citizenship, cultural and religious difference and technologies of sexuality, education and health.
Prof Rasmussen has authored numerous books including Becoming Subjects: Sexualities and Secondary Schooling (Routledge, 2006), and, most recently, Progressive Sexuality Education: The Conceits of Secularism (Routledge, 2016). She also co-edited, Youth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion and Insubordination in and out of Schools (Palgrave, 2004), and the Handbook of Sexuality Education (Palgrave - 2016).
She is on the editorial board of the Journal Sex Education (Routledge), and on the book series, Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education (Springer).
Prof Rasmussen's research and supervision interest areas include: Gender, Sexuality and Culture; Sex Education, Queer and Feminist Theory, Sexualities and Schooling; Secularism and Education
Experience
–present
Senior Lecturer Faculty of Education, Monash University
2016–present
Chair professor, Australian National Univeristy
Education
2003
University of South Australia, PhD Education
Publications
2016
Handbook of Sexuality Education, Palgrave
2016
Progressive Sexuality Education: The Conceits of Secularism, Routledge
2013
Interrogating the Politics of Pleasure in Sexuality Education: Pleasure Bound, Routledge
2006
Becoming Subjects: Sexualities and Secondary Schooling, Routledge
2004
Youth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion and Insubordination in and out of Schools, Palgrave
Grants and Contracts
2012
Sexuality Education in Australia and New Zealand: Responding to cultural and religious difference
Role:
Chief Investigator
Funding Source:
Australian Research Council
2012
Affective Beginnings: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues in teacher education