„Ролята на жената е голяма“: Медикализация и рамкиране на отклонения на нормативната сексуалност в напреднала възраст по време на късния социализъм в България
“The Role of Women is Great”: Medicalisation and Framing of Deviations of Normative Sexuality in Old Age during Late Socialism in Bulgaria

Summary/Abstract: The text analyses the medicalisation of deviations of normative sexuality in the fields of medicine and sexology during late socialism in Bulgaria, which are usually defined as a taboo topic which looms over the socialist exemplary publicity. Both state interventions, and most of the scholarship in the humanities and the social sciences are focused on the categories of youth and active age, which were the main targets of regulation and concern in that respect. However, what happens to those who have already passed their (re)productive prime and have presumably entered the stream of family life? The study proposes an approach to tracing the discursive framing of „senile sexuality“, which oscillates between the poles of age-normal manifestations, pathological processes and deviant behaviours. Their problematisation aims at outlining prescriptions and expectations that permeate age and gender categories, while at the same time constructing an expert „psychology of the couple in crisis“.

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