Назив чланка Review of the book To see a moose. The history of Polish sex education

Ignjatović, Suzana (2025) Назив чланка Review of the book To see a moose. The history of Polish sex education. Anthropological Notebooks, 31 (1). pp. 6-8. ISSN 2232-3716

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Abstract

To See a Moose is the English edition of the book published in Poland in 2017. The book is a comprehensive history of sex education in modern Poland. It encompasses the 20th century, but also takes the reader to the 19th century and early 21st century to explain the dynamics of historical change. The book tackles the neighboring fields of political anthropology and sociology, peeling back the layers of complex relations between political actors and ideological matrices—between faith and secularism, dogma and science, conservatism and progressivism. The book is divided into three parts (ten chapters). Part One is the largest part of the book (eight chapters), covering a range of topics: manuals on sexual education, masturbation, first sexual experience, pregnancy, pornography, queerness, and sexual violence. Part Two explores the history of Catholic positions on sex education over the studied historical period. Part Three focuses on stereotypes and biases on sexuality “in the countryside”, pointing at some epistemological issues in the anthropology of sexuality.

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