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Talk about sex : how sex ed battles helped ignite the right / Janice M. Irvine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Irvine, Janice M., author.
- Series:
- Sexuality Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community and school--United States.
- Community and school.
- Sex instruction--Religious aspects.
- Sex instruction.
- Sex instruction--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "A rich social history of how the American right wing used sex education as one of its first battlegrounds on which to build a political movement and regulate sexual morality by controlling sexual speech"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Redefining Sex, 1964: A Prologue
- Days of Rage
- Born-Again Sexual Politics
- The New Sexual Revolution
- Victims, Villains, . . . and Neighbors
- Doing It with Words
- The Passions of Culture Wars
- The Politics of Aversion
- If Asked, Don't Tell: A Final Comment
- Epilogue to the 20th Anniversary Edition
- On Methods and Terminology
- Appendix: Opponents of Comprehensive Sex Education
- Appendix to the 20th Anniversary Edition.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439924235
- 1439924236
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