SEX EDUCATION AS THE ANSWER. Conflicting positions in the parliamentary debate on abortion in Argentina in 2018

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SEX EDUCATION, ABORTION, PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE, DISCOURSE ANALYSIS, SOCIAL REPRESENTATIONS

Abstract

Theaim of this article is to analyse, within the framework of Discourse Analysis, the social representations about the sex education that legislators put into circulation in the parliamentary debate for the legalization of abortion, in Argentina, in the year 2018. To do this, we analyze the topics that were related to this issue, as well as the social actors involved and those who were legitimized to address the problem. Although sex education constitutes a central argument both for those who opposed the project and for those who supported it, in the first case it is presented eminently as a method of prevention, inscribed in a medical discourse, while in the second it acquires an emancipator character.

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Gabriel Dvoskin, Universidad de Buenos Aires - CONICET - Universidad Pedagógica Nacional

Gabriel Dvoskin es doctor en Lingüística por la Universidad de BUenos Aires y licenciado y profesor en Letras por esa misma universidad. Es investigador asistente del CONICET y se desempeña como profesor Adjunto en la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional y como Jefe de Trabajos Prácticos en la UBA. En su investigación, analiza la implementación de la Educación sexual integral en la Argentina, en colegios de nivel secundario, desde la perspectiva del Análisis del Discurso y la Sociolingüística etnográfica. Es director del proyecto UBACyT "Discurso autorizado o discurso autoritario: la (re)producción del sentido en la institución escolar" e investigador responsable del PICT "Configuraciones discursivas en géneros editoriales con destinatario infantil y juvenil". Integra también el PICT "Alfabetizaciones multimodales y repertorios sociolingüísticos: un abordaje etnográfico de las nuevas prácticas de lectura, escritura y oralidad en las aulas de educación secundaria".

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2026-03-17

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No. 40 (2024)

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