Title The transformation of American sex education : Mary Calderone and the fight for sexual health / Ellen S. More

Published New York : New York University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (367 pages) : portraits Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Origins -- 1 Sexual Stories: Mary Calderone and the Personal Politics of Sex Education -- 2 Sex and Marriage Counseling before the Sexual Revolution -- 3 A Sex Education Apprenticeship: Calderone and Planned Parenthood -- 4 Creating SIECUS: Sex Education and the Challenge of Responsible Decision Making -- 5 Physician, Heal Thyself: The Medical Profession and Sex Education -- Part II Sex Education and Its Discontents -- 6 Halcyon Days -- 7 Broken Momentum: Enter the Opposition -- 8 Beleaguered Guru: Mary Calderone after SIECUS -- 9 Fighting for Comprehensive Sex Education -- 10 Sex Education and Community Values: Risk Reduction or Sexual Health and Justice -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author Summary A comprehensive history of the battle over sex education in the United StatesMid-century America had a problem talking about sex. Dr. Mary Calderone first diagnosed this condition and, in 1964, led the uphill battle to de-stigmatize sex education. Supporters hailed her as the "grandmother of modern sex education" while her detractors painted her as an "aging libertine," but both could agree that she was quickly shaping the way sex was discussed in the classroom. Part biography, part social history, The Transformation of American Sex Education for the first time situates Dr. Mary Calderone at the center of decades of political, cultural, and religious conflict in the fight for comprehensive sex education. Ellen S. More examines Americans'attempts to come to terms with the vexed subject of sex education in schools from the late 1940s to the early twenty-first century. Using Mary Calderone's life and career as a touchstone, she traces the origins of modern sex education in the United States from the work of a group of reformers who coalesced around Calderone to create the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) in 1964, to the development and use of the competing approaches known as "abstinence-based" and "comprehensive" sex education from the 1980s into the twenty-first century. A fascinating and timely read, The Transformation of American Sex Education provides a substantial contribution to the history of one of America's most intense and protracted culture wars, and the first account of the woman who fought those battles Analysis About Your Sexuality Abraham Stone Abstinence-based Sex Education Abstinence-plus Sex Education American Family Life Act (1981) American Medical Association (AMA) American Social Health Association Anaheim, California Billy James Hargis Birth Control Childhood sexuality Christian Crusade, The Communism Comprehensive Sex Education Contraception Culture Wars Curriculum Debra Haffner Decision-making Skills Deryck Calderwood Douglas Kirby Education Edward Steichen Elizabeth Blackwell Emily Mudd Family Life Education Feminism Focus on the Family Frank Lock Gender Inclusiveness Gender Get Real Gordon Drake Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) HIV/AIDS Hannah Stone Harold Lief Homosexuality Incest Jen Slonaker John Birch Society LGBTQ+ Leslie Kantor Lester Kirkendall Marriage Council of Philadelphia Marriage Counseling Mary Breasted Mary Calderone Mary Steichen Calderone Masturbation Medical Education Medical Schools Medical Students Mental Hygiene Michael Carrera National Council of Churches Obstetrics-Gynecology Our Whole Lives Peggy Brick Philip and Lorna Sarrel Planned Parenthood Federation of America Planned Parenthood of New York City Playboy Pornography Premarital Sexuality Psychiatry Public Health Quaker Race Reproductive Justice Republican Party Right Wing Opposition Robert Latou Dickinson SIECUS Guidelines SIECUS Sensitization-Desensitization Therapy Sex Education Sexual Health Sexual Revolution Sexual pleasure Sexuality Situation Ethics Students Theodoor Henrik Van de Velde Time Magazine U.S. History Unitarian Universalist Association University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine William F. Buckley William Genné Worcester, Massachusetts World Health Organization Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed March 21, 2022) Subject Calderone, Mary Steichen, 1904-1998. Calderone, Mary Steichen, 1904-1998 Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S. Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S. Sex instruction -- United States -- History Birth control -- United States -- History Women social reformers -- United States. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. Birth control Sex instruction Women social reformers United States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021014419 ISBN 1479812056 9781479812059 9781479812073 1479812072

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