Shaping sexual knowledge : a cultural history of sex education in twentieth century Europe / edited by Lutz D.H. Sauerteig and Roger Davidson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sauerteig, Lutz.

Davidson, Roger, 1942-

Series:

Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 32.

Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 32

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex instruction--Europe.

Sex instruction.

Europe.

Physical Description:

x, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Summary:

This volume makes a considerable contribution to the history of sex education. This book treats sex education in the broadest sense to incorporate all aspects of the formal and informal shaping of sexual knowledge and awareness of the young. The volume, therefore, not only addresses officially-sanctioned and regulated sex education delivered within the school system and regulated by the State, but also sex education taking place within the private sphere of the family and obtained through the media such as sex education books and films.The history of sex education enables us to gain valuable insights into the cultural constructions of what different societies have defined as 'normal' sexuality and sexual health. Yet, the history of sex education has only recently attracted the full attention of historians of modern sexuality.

Contents:

Shaping the sexual knowledge of the young : introduction / Lutz D.H. Sauerteig and Roger Davidson

Sex education, sexual rights, society and the child

In ignorance and in knowledge : reflections on the history of sex education in Britain / Lesley A. Hall

Sex education and the law in England and Wales : the importance of legal narratives / Ann Blair and Daniel Monk

Shaping sex education policy : religion, medicine and the state

Taking the middle way : sex education debates in Sweden in the early twentieth century / Lena Lennerhed

The growing pains of sex education in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), 1945-69 / Mark Fenemore

Purity and pedagogy : the Alliance-Scottish Council and school sex education in Scotland, 1955-67 / Roger Davidson

Carnal knowledge : the social politics and experience of sex education in Italy, 1940-80 / Bruno P.F. Wanrooij

Sex education and the representation of gendered and sexed bodies

Representations of pregnancy and childbirth in (West) German sex education books, 1900s-1970s / Lutz D.H. Sauerteig

Purity redefined : Catholic attitudes towards children's sex education in Austria, 1920-36 / Britta McEwen

The partial picture : framing the discourse of sex in British educative films of the early 1930s / Barbara Crowther

Helga (1967) : West German sex education and the cinema in the 1960s / Uta Schwarz

Mapping the sexual knowledge and ignorance of the young

The social politics and experience of sex education in early twentieth-century Poland (1905-39) / Magda Gawin

The experience of sex education in the Netherlands and Flanders in childhood memories from the first half of the twentieth century / Hugo Röling.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415411141

0415411149

OCLC:

213407358