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Wednesday 24 March 2004 16:30
I-4 SEX06 Sex and Pedagogy
Room N1 O1
Network: Sexuality Chair: Jens Rydström
Organizers: - Discussant: Lesley Hall
Roger Davidson : 'This Thorniest of Problems': School Sex Education Policy in Scotland 1930-80
In that sex education both reflects and reinforces sexual ideologies and concerns, its history provides a powerful insight into the prevailing discourses surrounding sexuality in modern society. Within Britain the history of sex education has been deployed to illuminate the medico-moral politics of the early twentieth century and subsequent debates ... (Show more)
In that sex education both reflects and reinforces sexual ideologies and concerns, its history provides a powerful insight into the prevailing discourses surrounding sexuality in modern society. Within Britain the history of sex education has been deployed to illuminate the medico-moral politics of the early twentieth century and subsequent debates surrounding the issue of social hygiene and prophylactic strategies towards VD. While it has figured in the general literature on sexuality and society, such as the studies by Jeffrey Weeks and Lesley Hall, and in studies on AIDS policy, little detailed research has been undertaken on the history of sex education in Britain in the period 1930-80.

This paper, based on a Wellcome Trust-funded project on ‘Health, Sexuality and the State in late Twentieth-Century Scotland’, seeks to explore this field and to identify the major impulses and constraints operating on Scottish policy-makers. Using the files of Scottish health and education departments, it seeks to demonstrate the interplay between varying official perceptions of child sexuality and the extent to which sex education - its content, delivery, and location - was an area of contest between governmental, medical, educational, religious and parental forces within Scottish society. The response of Scottish governance to the perceived breakdown in moral values of the young due to the Second World War and the post-war ‘permissive society’ will be documented. Central issues to be addressed are why policy-makers continued to rely on social purity and social hygiene personnel and ideologies well into the 1960s, and to what extent new moral and medical crisis perceptions relating to the sexual behaviour of the young eroded policy constraints in the 1970s. (Show less)

Ning De Coninck-Smith : Child Talk and Parental Fear. Indecency in Danish Elementary Schools 1900-1970
In 1943 a Danish teacher was sentenced to jail because of indecency towards his pupils. The teacher had a record of at least three other accusations over a span of about 20 years, but he hadn’t been sentenced before now. On the basis of a quantitative study of 85 cases ... (Show more)
In 1943 a Danish teacher was sentenced to jail because of indecency towards his pupils. The teacher had a record of at least three other accusations over a span of about 20 years, but he hadn’t been sentenced before now. On the basis of a quantitative study of 85 cases from Danish state elementary schools during the time period 1900-1970 the paper discusses how indecency – or what we presently term paedophilia – has been spoken about and handled within the educational system. The paper makes use of an interdisciplinary approach relating the history of sexuality to the history of the educational system, mainly the rise of new educational ideas and new bodily and behavioural expectations especially to the male teachers. (Show less)

Lutz Sauerteig : S'Sex Education Literature and Doing Gender, 1960s-1970s
I would suggest to do something on sex education books for children and adolescents from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, analysing images of the sexual body, the presentation of pregnancy and the construction of ‘Geschlecht’ (the German expression for both, sex and gender). Especially I would like to say something ... (Show more)
I would suggest to do something on sex education books for children and adolescents from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, analysing images of the sexual body, the presentation of pregnancy and the construction of ‘Geschlecht’ (the German expression for both, sex and gender). Especially I would like to say something about why I think that the notion of ‘Geschlecht’ is much more helpful since it could be used to indicate the interdependency of the construction of sex and gender. This could be my methodological approach for my paper. (Show less)



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