Sex Ed, Segregated
The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive-Era America
Seiten
2015
University of Rochester Press (Verlag)
978-1-58046-535-9 (ISBN)
University of Rochester Press (Verlag)
978-1-58046-535-9 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Origins of the Sex Education Movement
2. Parental Prerogative and School-Based Sex Education
3. Sex Education for Whites Only?
4. Venereal Disease and Sex Education for African Americans
5. Sex Education in the American Expeditionary Force
6. Policing Sexuality on the Home Front
7. Sex Education in the 1920s
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.8.2015 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Gender and Race in American History |
| Verlagsort | Rochester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-58046-535-8 / 1580465358 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-58046-535-9 / 9781580465359 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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