Mary Lou Rasmussen
BA Hons (Uni Melb.)
Grad Dip Ed. (UCAN)
PhD (UniSA)
Australian National University | ANU · School of Sociology
Gender, Sexuality And Education, Sociology, Culture, Gender, Sexuality Sociology Of Education, Other Studies In Human Society.
Feminist theories and gender studies; Queer theory and queer studies; Gender, sexuality and education; Social and cultural studies of health and wellbeing; Secularism, cultural and religious difference in education; Young people; Reproduction; Australian sexual publics.
Professor Mary Lou Rasmussen has undertaken research in the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Her research focuses on building transdisciplinary understanding of sexuality and gender across diverse lifeworlds, taking account of issues related to sexual citizenship, cultural and religious difference and technologies of sexuality, education and health. She is co-editor, with Louisa Allen, of the Handbook of Sexuality Education (Palgrave).
