Cina: educazione sessuale e differenze di genere

Autore: Alessandra Aresu
In: Genesis. IV,2 2005
doi:10.1400/78378
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Abstract

China: sex education and gender difference
Since the late 1980s sex education has been widely promoted in the People’s Republic of China and, particularly in urban areas, is becoming an important aspect of young people’s education. Physical and psychological development, personal hygiene, sexual desire, homosexuality, premarital sex, teenage pregnancy and venereal diseases are only some of the themes discussed in the classrooms. Sex education textbooks establish parameters, standards of behaviour and principles of sexual morality to “guide” young people’s sexual and gender development. Boys and girls are asked to conform to these parameters in order to complete their development as strong and healthy citizens of the future. This study proposes a gendered analysis of formal sex education materials recently published in China. In particular, it points out that educational messages present evident gender imbalances and represent standards of morality and responsibility which vary according to gender.