Sex Ed, Segregated

The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive-Era America
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-58046-535-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 228 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Gender and Race in American History

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shah, Courtney Q

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sexualpädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Courtney Shah is an instructor at Lower Columbia College, Washington.