Sex goes to school : girls and sex education before the 1960s

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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 Riv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Freeman, Susan Kathleen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
1900-1999
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
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Momentum and legitimacy
  • Reconstructing classrooms and relationships
  • Experiments in sex education
  • The facts of life
  • Gender and heterosexual adjustment
  • Sexuality education beyond classrooms.

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