Overview

Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in Poland, Agnieszka Koscianska looks at how it has changed from the 19th century to the present day. The book compares how sex was described in school textbooks, including those scrapped by the communists for fear of offending religious sentiments, and explores how the Catholic church retained its power in Poland under various regimes. The book also identifies the women and men who changed the way sex was written about in the country, and how they established the field of Polish sex education.

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Author:   Agnieszka Koscianska ,  Frances Pine ,  Philip Palmer
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   9
ISBN:  

9781800730601

ISBN 10:   1800730608
Pages:   354
Publication Date:   14 May 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Foreword Frances Pine Preface to the English Edition Acknowledgements Introduction: Puberty and Politics Part I: Behind and Beyond the School Gates Chapter 1. Poland Bids Farewell to the Stork: The First Class and the First Handbook Chapter 2. Masturbation: Not Harmful, but ... Chapter 3. The First Time Chapter 4. How (Not) to Get Pregnant Chapter 5. The Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Abstinence, or Maybe Mutual Masturbation? Chapter 6. Is Pornography a Form of Education? Chapter 7. Queerness: Is Treatment Possible and Effective? Chapter 8. 'Don't Rape!': The Sexual Violence Prevention Campaign That Never Existed Part II: The View from the Pulpit Chapter 9. Sinful and Unhealthy: Sex Education the Catholic Way Part III: Country Matters Chapter 10. 'Come Get your Acorns, Boys': Sex Education in the Countryside Conclusion: A Culture of Emancipation, a Culture of Dialogue References Index

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Koscianska produces a solid-and at the same time extremely readable-history of sex education in contemporary Poland. She navigates through the early twentieth century, the interwar period, the years of state socialism, and three decades of democracy in search of sites of the production and reception of sexual knowledge. * Aspasia. The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History The Author places her analysis in the context of today's debates on sex education in Polish schools. It appears that the history of these debates is more complicated than one might think based on widespread narratives of progress: it does not lead from the backwardness of the early 20th century to conservatism and censorship of state socialism and to the wind of liberalism that came from the West during the postsocialist transformation. * Etnografia Polska (Polish Ethnography)

Author Information

Agnieszka Koscianska is Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Warsaw. In 2021, she is Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies. She is the author and (co)editor of several volumes on gender and sexuality, including Gender, Pleasure and Violence (2021, Indiana University Press).

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