«It is a piece that fits into another»: Sexual health education and the normalization of bodies in Western Switzerland
Abstract
Drawing upon two ethnographic studies conducted in Western Switzerland – in a sexual education service for disabled people, and in a sexual health centre for the general public – this article demonstrates how gender is constructed through sexual health education. Deploying the theoretical paradigms of the Doing Gender Theory (West, Zimmerman, 2009), and the epistemology of ignorance (Tuana, 2006; 2004), this article presents one main finding: sexual health education programs (re)produce gender dynamics along a continuum, in different sexual health education programs designed for different audiences (youth, teenagers, adults). The analysis follows three lines: discourses, as well as medical and anatomical models, about fecundation and the clitoris; discourses about the social construction of puberty; definition and perception of sexual intercourse.
Keywords
- sexual health education
- Doing Gender
- epistemology of ignorance
- ethnography
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Genre, sexualité & société - GSS, 24 | Automne 2020: «Varia»
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Französisch
Stadt:
Aubervilliers
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2020
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Schulwesen – Ausbildung
Gesundheit – Medizin
Sexualität
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Soziologie, Erziehungswissenschaft
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