| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) |
|
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-212) and index. |
| Contents |
Momentum and legitimacy -- Reconstructing classrooms and relationships -- Experiments in sex education -- The facts of life -- Gender and heterosexual adjustment -- Sexuality education beyond classrooms. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sex instruction -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Sex instruction. |
|
United States. |
|
History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Sex instruction for girls -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Sex instruction for girls. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
| Subject |
Sex education. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: (DLC) 2007045218 (OCoLC)177019314 |
| ISBN |
9780252091285 (electronic book) |
|
0252091280 (electronic book) |
|
1283251086 |
|
9781283251082 |
|
9780252033247 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
|
0252033248 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
|
9780252075315 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
|
0252075315 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
|
