Ausências e presenças do clitóris em livros didáticos

Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigate how the process of didactic transposition of the clitoral structure occurs, in seven books on Natural Sciences and its Technologies, recommended by PNLD /2021. To this end, we carried out a comparative analysis between the clitoris and the penis, using an analytical matrix based on the KVP model (CLÉMENT, 2006) and constituted by the following criteria: image representation of the organs, in sagittal section of the pelvis and frontal view and when isolated from the human body, and textual representation. The results showed gaps in the representations of anatomophysiological elements related to the clitoris, different from what we observed in relation to the penis. We identified a predominance of images of the sectioned human body that do not provide an adequate visualization of the clitoral structure and we found that most LDs represent the clitoral glans as if it were the organ in its entirety. In this way, we believe that the educational practices, based on these textbooks, should be rethought in order to provide a more equitable teaching about the genitals and deconstruct misconceptions about female sexuality.