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2016 - Vol. 10, Num. 2 | |||||
The Unstable Acceptance of Homosexuality. The Case of Elitist Catholic Schools in Santiago de Chile |
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Pablo Astudillo Lizama | ||||||
Abstract | ||||||
Within elitist catholic schools, homosexuality is treated as the result of conciliation between contemporary norms guaranteeing an individual’s coherent sexuality, and ecclesiastic rules defining a school’s educational program. Supposedly, catholic schools would be hostile towards non-dominant sexualities; however, different factors contribute to the emergence of an “accepting” treatment of homosexuality. That “acceptance”, nevertheless, is based on limited reflexivity regarding the process of sexual individuation. As a result, there is partial recognition of the homosexual person, and it is important to expose the hidden social traps that prevent a complete recognition from taking place. In a way, what we observe in catholic schools is also part of a much larger social process. The advance of political forms of acceptance towards homosexuality sometimes coexists with a much subtler structure of homophobia, whose eradication requires going beyond the apparent acceptance of the “other” that presently dominates this social space. |
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Key words | ||||||
Sexual education, Catholic school, Homosexuality, Individuation, Recognition. |
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Complete Text | ||||||
Full text in Spanish, PDF | ||||||
Reference | ||||||
Astudillo, P. (2016). La inestable aceptación de la homosexualidad. El caso de las escuelas católicas de elite en Santiago de Chile. [The unstable acceptance of homosexuality. The case of elitist catholic schools in Santiago de Chile]. Revista Latinoamericana de Educación Inclusiva, 10(2),
21-37. Retrieved from http://www.rinace.net/rlei/numeros/vol10-num2/art1.pdf |
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