The Transformation of American Sex Education (eBook)

Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

Ellen S. More (Autor)

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2022
486 Seiten
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-1207-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: 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 • Gender Inclusiveness • Get Real • Gordon Drake • Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP) • Hannah Stone • Harold Lief • HIV/Aids • Homosexuality • Incest • Jen Slonaker • John Birch Society • Leslie Kantor • Lester Kirkendall • LGBTQ+ • 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 • Sensitization-Desensitization Therapy • Sex Education • Sexual Health • Sexuality • sexual pleasure • Sexual Revolution • SIECUS • SIECUS Guidelines • Situation Ethics • students • Theodoor Henrik Van de Velde • Time Magazine • Unitarian Universalist Association • University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine • U.S. History • William F. Buckley • William Genné • Worcester, Massachusetts • World Health Organization
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-1207-2 / 1479812072
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-1207-3 / 9781479812073