Relationships and Sex Education in the Age of Anti-Gender Movements: What Challenges for Democracy?

Autor/in	Venegas, Mar
Titel	Relationships and Sex Education in the Age of Anti-Gender Movements: What Challenges for Democracy?
Quelle	In: Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 22 (2022) 4, S.481-495 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1811
DOI	10.1080/14681811.2021.1955669
Schlagwörter	Sex Education; Sexual Identity; Sexual Orientation; Gender Issues; Political Attitudes; Social Influences; Equal Education; Educational Policy; Parent Rights; Barriers; Ideology; Social Attitudes; Religious Factors; Democracy; Activism; Educational Environment; Parent Attitudes; Cross Cultural Studies; Foreign Countries; Language Usage; Interpersonal Relationship; Elementary Secondary Education; Social Change; Agenda Setting; Spain; Europe + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sex instruction; Sexualaufklärung; Sexualerziehung; Sexualkunde; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Sexuelle Orientierung; Geschlechterfrage; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Sozialer Einfluss; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Elternrecht; Ideologie; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Demokratie; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Elternverhalten; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Ausland; Sprachgebrauch; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Sozialer Wandel; Spanien; Europa
Abstract	Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) has been subject to controversy historically and several studies have analysed the challenges and barriers to delivering it in schools. Recently, however, a new global phenomenon has sharpening debate with the emergence of anti-gender movements and their discourse on 'gender ideology'. The focus now is less on the issue of delivering RSE in school, than the possibility of there being such a thing as RSE. This controversy derives from the responses of reactionary social, religious and political groups in many European countries, but organised globally. These groups appeal to parents' right to veto RSE activities in schools. This article examines this phenomenon starting from the thesis that the ultimate aim of current anti-gender mobilisations is not so much to undermine sex and gender equality policies, but democracy itself. To do so, it first examines the actions of anti-gender movements and the 'gender ideology' they claim exists. It then moves to analyse school-based RSE, discussing debate about delivering RSE in schools and how anti-gender movements have hardened this debate, with special attention paid to 'parent'-led controversies in Spain and Europe. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01