Normalizar : discurso, legislación y educación sexual

Abstract

Here we present some lines of analysis on the making of the Law of Integral Sexual Education in Buenos Aires adopted in 2006. Formed after lively debate, this law implied the activation of a series of discursive procedures of power and normalization that enabled the birth of the official curriculum for sex education. It highlights the involvement of a medical discourse and a moralizing discourse - specifically Catholic- in the prescription of identity and ideal bodies; in other words healthy, normal, heterosexuals. Such instances simultaneously and necessarily produced exclusion, defining an abject space for those identities and bodies which are opposed to the heteronormative.