CIVILIZING THE BODIES: SEX AND GENDER PEDAGOGIES IN COSTA RICAN EDUCATION

Abstract

After a discourse analysis of the disciplinary mechanisms of sex and gender in Costa Rican primary education, I suggest that these are a product of two discursive tendencies: liberal and conservative. Nevertheless, in contrast with the results I found in a previous study of programs which were produced alongside more than four decades, during which a kind of rejection of sexual diversity was predominant, in the present, conservatism has a kind of special misogynous turn.