Sex Ed, Segregated: The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive-Era America - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Courtney Q. ShahSeries:Gender and Race in American HistoryTheme:Chronological Period/20th Century, Cultural Region/Eastern EuropePublish date:8/15/2015Pages:228
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Rochester PressISBN-13:9781580465359ISBN-10:1580465358UPC:9781580465359Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:European, United States, Sexual InstructionBook Topic:Eastern, 20th CenturySize:9.10 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.545Product ID:SCVE521GJN
Demonstrates that the intersection between race, gender, and class formed the backbone of Progressive-Era debates over sex education, the policing of sexuality, and the prevention of venereal disease. Against the backdrop of the Progressive Era, World War I, and the 1920s, sex education burgeoned in the United States through institutions like the YMCA, the popular press, girls' schools, and the US military. As access to sexualknowledge increased, reformers debated what the messages of a sex-education curriculum should be and, perhaps more important, who would receive those messages. Courtney Shah's study chronicles this debate, showing that sex education then, just as in our own era, had as much to do with politics and morals as it did with biology and medicine. Examining how different population groups in the United States were given contrasting types of sex education, Shah demonstrates that such education was used as a tool to reinforce or challenge racial segregation, women's rights, religious diversity, and class identity. Courtney Shah is an instructor of history at Lower Columbia College in Longview, Washington.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Rochester PressISBN-13:9781580465359ISBN-10:1580465358UPC:9781580465359Book Category:Literary Criticism, History, Self-HelpBook Subcategory:European, United States, Sexual InstructionBook Topic:Eastern, 20th CenturySize:9.10 x 5.90 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.545Product ID:SCVE521GJN
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