Birds and Bees: Transnational Histories of Sex Education

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Birds and Bees: Transnational Histories of Sex Education

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John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin
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Lansstraße 5-9 (Graduate School of North American Studies, Seminarraum), 14195 Berlin
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Berlin
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Germany
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06.07.2012 - 06.07.2012
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Frauke Brammer

This one-day symposium will address the history of sex education from a transnational perspective. Papers will discuss the culturally and time-specific concepts of 20th century sex education targeting children, soldiers, or other “at risk” groups, in order to identify the changing cultural meanings of images and the promotion of heteronormative conventions in school books, films and curricula. Looking at movements for social purity and abstinence, the papers will further discuss culturally specific conceptions of decency, pornography, and debates on censorship and control of public health, hygiene, and private social relations.

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09:30 - 11:00 h: Panel I

Christabelle Sethna (Institute of Women‘s Studies, University of Ottawa): Abstinence and the Animal Turn

Lutz D.H. Sauerteig (Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham University): (Don‘t) ‘Show Me!’ - The Cultural Context of a Contested Sex Education Book

11:15 - 12:30 h: Film Screening

12:30 - 14:00 h: Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30: Panel II

Anita Winkler (Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham University): North American Sex Education Films in West German Classrooms: A Transnational Perspective

Gudrun Löhrer (John F. Kennedy Institute, Department of History): Affecting Body and Mind - Audio-Visual Sex Education in “Damaged Lives”

15:30 - 1600 h: Final Discussion

Organized by Gudrun Löhrer and Frauke Brammer

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