CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Vukosavljevic, Jovana |
|---|---|
| Title | Whose Sex? Public Opinion on Sexual Education Initiative in Serbia |
| Summary | The sex education initiative was introduced in 2013 by the Serbian Provincial Secretariat for Sports and Youth as an elective course in Serbian high schools. This type of project has not yet been recorded in Serbian education, therefore it received an enormous amount of attention. In this thesis, I look at the discourses of sex education in contemporary Serbia, through a content analysis of media texts, political statements and social media, as well as by analyzing interviews conducted with parents in the capital of Serbia, Belgrade during April 2015. In my thesis I argue that the narratives around sexual education reflect the nationalist ideas, as well the ongoing debate on “Europeanization” in Serbia. By presenting the role of women's body in the nationalist rhetoric, I examine the topics on women, reproduction and nation through the analysis of perceptions of sex education in Serbia. Later on I present how the narratives of sex education reflect the idea of East/West, tradition/modernity in Serbia. My case study contributes to existing scholarship on gender and nationalism in Serbian context, adding sex education as an angle for the analysis. |
| Supervisor | Fodor Éva |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/vukosavljevic_jovana.pdf |
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