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When sex goes to school : warring views on sex--and sex education--since the sixties / Kristin Luker.
Van Pelt Library HQ57.5.A3 L84 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Luker, Kristin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex instruction--United States.
- Sex instruction.
- Sex educators.
- United States.
- Sex educators--United States.
- Sex customs--United States--History.
- Sex customs.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 368 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W. W. Norton & Co., [2006]
- Summary:
- Luker, a professor of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and a professor at Boalt Law School, explores the ideas and values behind the fight over sex education through the lives of parents, its most passionate participants.
- Contents:
- Mrs. Boland, the sexual revolution, and me
- Sex and politics in American life
- The birth of sex education
- Sex education, the sexual revolution, and the sixties
- Sexual liberals and sexual conservatives
- Becoming a sexual liberal or a sexual conservative
- Boundaries, life, and the whole darn thing
- Morality and sex
- The politics of sex
- Sex education in America and whether it works or doesn't
- and why that's not the right question.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-356) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393060896
- OCLC:
- 64486571
- Publisher Number:
- 9780393060898
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