Sexuality and gender in school-based sex education in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland in the 1970s and 1980s

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F20%3A00114000" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/20:00114000 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1081602X.2019.1679219?journalCode=rhof20" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1081602X.2019.1679219?journalCode=rhof20</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2019.1679219" target="_blank" >10.1080/1081602X.2019.1679219</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Sexuality and gender in school-based sex education in Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland in the 1970s and 1980s

Original language description

Was there a state-socialist model of school sex education and if so, what characterized its form and content? What shaped the specificities and divergent characteristics of each country? The paper explores and compares programs of ‘education for family life’ as these became part of state-driven reproductive politics in late stages of state socialism in three countries (Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary), with a particular focus on sexuality and gender. We analyze how sexuality was framed in these otherwise broadly understood programs, which aimed not just at discussing sex but also interpersonal relations within the family, forming the ways in which gender was to be understood, and sexuality was to be practiced. We show that school curricula for education for family life, which included sexual education, were introduced in the early 1970s in all three countries, and these programs displayed many similarities. We identify transnational influences in triggering the interest in such type of education and cross-border exchanges that shaped it further. Nevertheless, when analyzing the content of these curricula, national factors and peculiarities become visible, like the heightened focus on ‘normal’ family life in Czechoslovakia, the importance of ethnicity (Roma minority) in Hungary or religion (Catholicism) in Poland. As a result, we cannot speak of a universal model of state-socialist sex education. Methodologically, we follow the sociology of expertise that focuses on the ways in which expertise forms, links or disjoins, creating new areas of social life in need of expert intervention (Eyal, Rose, Hacking). Changes in expertise thus map onto broader social changes and analyzing the shifts in expertise can help understand societal processes of social reproduction and change. In our paper, we focus on sexological and pedagogical expertise, as these intersected on the issue of school-based sex education.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GJ16-10639Y" target="_blank" >GJ16-10639Y: Intimate life during state socialism in comparative perspective. Sexuality, expertise, and power in East Central Europe (1948-1989)</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

History of the Family

ISSN

1081-602X

e-ISSN

1873-5398

Volume of the periodical

25

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

550-575

UT code for WoS article

000493867000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85074779548