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Author Freeman, Susan Kathleen

Title Sex goes to school : girls and sex education before the 1960s / Susan K. Freeman
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
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Contents Momentum and legitimacy -- Reconstructing classrooms and relationships -- Experiments in sex education -- The facts of life -- Gender and heterosexual adjustment -- Sexuality education beyond classrooms
Summary When seeking approaches for sex education, few look to the past for guidance. But Susan K. Freeman's investigation of the classrooms of the 1940s and 1950s offers numerous insights into the potential for sex education to address adolescent challenges, particularly for girls. From rural Toms River, New Jersey, to urban San Diego and many places in between, the use of discussion-based classes fostered an environment that focused less on strictly biological matters of human reproduction and more on the social dimensions of the gendered and sexual worlds that the students inhabited. The discussion-based approach emphasized a potentially liberating sense of personal choice and responsibility in young women's relationship decisions, and teachers presented girls' sex lives and gendered behavior as critical to the success of American families and, by extension, the entire way of life of American democracy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-212) and index
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Subject Sex instruction -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Sex instruction for girls -- United States -- History -- 20th century
PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Sex instruction
Sex instruction for girls
Weibliche Jugend
Sexualerziehung
Unterricht
United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718437
ISBN 9780252091285
0252091280
1283251086
9781283251082
9786613251084
6613251089