«Let’s talk about love, not just about sex». Sentimental education in the "Parents’ Journal" by Ada Gobetti

Abstract

In 1959, Ada Prospero Gobetti founded the monthly magazine «Il Giornale dei Genitori» in Tourin, one the most interesting journals of those years from a pedagogical point of view for the relevance of the educational issues treated. Written in a understandable language even for those not involved in education, the magazine intends to address a vast, popular audience, with the aim both of freeing the discourse from specialistic jargon and of making it an instrument of cultural renewal of the society in a democratic-progressive perspective. One of the themes debated, first and foremost by Ada Gobetti, is the need for a renewed sexual education for the new generations, freed from the guilty taboos of the bourgeois tradition, re-established according to a new ethics of coexistence between the sexes.