@article{ART003281426},
author={김올튼},
title={How ‘Harmful Sexuality Education’ Has Been Constructed: The Institutionalization of Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Feminist Discourse by Conservative Evangelicals in South Korea},
journal={아시아여성연구},
issn={1225-9241},
year={2025},
volume={64},
number={3},
pages={231-281}
TY - JOUR
AU - 김올튼
TI - How ‘Harmful Sexuality Education’ Has Been Constructed: The Institutionalization of Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Feminist Discourse by Conservative Evangelicals in South Korea
JO - 아시아여성연구
PY - 2025
VL - 64
IS - 3
PB - Research Institute of Asian Women
SP - 231
EP - 281
SN - 1225-9241
AB - This study investigates how the discourse of “harmful sexuality education” has been constructed, focusing on how the anti-feminist and anti-LGBTQ+ discourses of conservative Protestant groups have become institutionalized within the domain of sexuality education policy. From 2007 to 2024, when conservative Protestant groups began to actively intervene in policy using anti-LGBTQ+ narratives and the mass removal of sexuality education books became a major social controversy, the institutionalization of the “harmful sexuality education” discourse unfolded in three distinct phases. The first phase (2007 to 2013) marks a period of secondary targeting, during which sexuality education was indirectly framed as “promoting homosexuality” in the context of opposition to the Anti-Discrimination Act and the Student Human Rights Ordinance. While sexuality education had not yet become a core policy agenda for conservative Protestant groups, this phase laid the discursive groundwork for its later explicit targeting. The second phase (2014 to 2019) represents a stage of explicit targeting, in which the stigmatizing label “harmful sexuality education” was used to directly attack the sexuality education policies of the central government and the programs of local sexuality education institutions, while simultaneously promoting alternative models of so-called “biblical sexuality education.” The third phase (2020 to 2024) saw the discourse of “harmful sexuality education” operating most extensively at an institutional level. During this period, the national curriculum was regressively revised, sexuality education books were widely withdrawn, and “biblical sexuality education” circulated institutionally through local governance networks. In contrast, discourses that critically addressed sexual hierarchy, heteronormativity, and gendered power relations remained largely absent within the realm of coordinative discourse. This study suggests that when the practice of (re)conceptualizing sexuality takes place within the space of coordinative discourse, namely, when such discourse shifts from a defensive posture to one that is transgressive, it opens the possibility for sexuality education policies that gradually erode the very discursive conditions sustaining the stigmatizing label of “harmful sexuality education”.
KW - conservative protestantism;anti-LGBTQ;anti-feminism;sexuality education;backlash
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김올튼. (2025). How ‘Harmful Sexuality Education’ Has Been Constructed: The Institutionalization of Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Feminist Discourse by Conservative Evangelicals in South Korea. 아시아여성연구, 64(3), 231-281.
김올튼. 2025, "How ‘Harmful Sexuality Education’ Has Been Constructed: The Institutionalization of Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Feminist Discourse by Conservative Evangelicals in South Korea", 아시아여성연구, vol.64, no.3 pp.231-281.
김올튼 "How ‘Harmful Sexuality Education’ Has Been Constructed: The Institutionalization of Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Feminist Discourse by Conservative Evangelicals in South Korea" 아시아여성연구 64.3 pp.231-281 (2025) : 231.
김올튼. How ‘Harmful Sexuality Education’ Has Been Constructed: The Institutionalization of Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Feminist Discourse by Conservative Evangelicals in South Korea. 2025; 64(3), 231-281.
김올튼. "How ‘Harmful Sexuality Education’ Has Been Constructed: The Institutionalization of Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Feminist Discourse by Conservative Evangelicals in South Korea" 아시아여성연구 64, no.3 (2025) : 231-281.
김올튼. How ‘Harmful Sexuality Education’ Has Been Constructed: The Institutionalization of Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Feminist Discourse by Conservative Evangelicals in South Korea. 아시아여성연구, 64(3), 231-281.
김올튼. How ‘Harmful Sexuality Education’ Has Been Constructed: The Institutionalization of Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Feminist Discourse by Conservative Evangelicals in South Korea. 아시아여성연구. 2025; 64(3) 231-281.
김올튼. How ‘Harmful Sexuality Education’ Has Been Constructed: The Institutionalization of Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Feminist Discourse by Conservative Evangelicals in South Korea. 2025; 64(3), 231-281.
김올튼. "How ‘Harmful Sexuality Education’ Has Been Constructed: The Institutionalization of Anti-LGBTQ and Anti-Feminist Discourse by Conservative Evangelicals in South Korea" 아시아여성연구 64, no.3 (2025) : 231-281.
