This book explores the place of sexuality in a Hungarian vocational school. The author critically discusses key issues concerning schooling and sexuality, addressing such themes as LGBTQ+ youth and teachers, institutional hierarchy, and the role of sexuality in the re/production of social inequalities through education.
Dorottya Rédai is an independent scholar affiliated with the Central European University and Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. She is also an activist and an education specialist, focusing on gender and sexualities.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Sexing the school.- Chapter 2. Researching Marzipan: school structure, methodology and ethics.- Chapter 3. Sex in the school: adolescent sexuality, sexual space and sex education in Marzipan.- Chapter 4. Institutional classed hierarchy and the intersectional re/production of social inequalities in Marzipan.- Chapter 5. Constituting gender dichotomies through discourses of sexual pleasure.- Chapter 6. Constituting ethnicity through discourses of virginity and marriage.- Chapter 7. Conclusions: Sexuality, schooling and the present and future of gender and education research in Hungary