Too hot to handle : a global history of sex education / Jonathan Zimmerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zimmerman, Jonathan, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex instruction for teenagers--History.

Sex instruction for teenagers.

Sex instruction--History.

Sex instruction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Too Hot to Handle is the first truly international history of sex education. As Jonathan Zimmerman shows, the controversial subject began in the West and spread steadily around the world over the past century. As people crossed borders, however, they joined hands to block sex education from most of their classrooms. Examining key players who supported and opposed the sex education movement, Zimmerman takes a close look at one of the most debated and divisive hallmarks of modern schooling.In the early 1900s, the United States pioneered sex education to protect citizens from venereal disease. But the American approach came under fire after World War II from European countries, which valued individual rights and pleasures over social goals and outcomes. In the so-called Third World, sex education developed in response to the deadly crisis of HIV/AIDS. By the early 2000s, nearly every country in the world addressed sex in its official school curriculum. Still, Zimmerman demonstrates that sex education never won a sustained foothold: parents and religious leaders rejected the subject as an intrusion on their authority, while teachers and principals worried that it would undermine their own tenuous powers. Despite the overall liberalization of sexual attitudes, opposition to sex education increased as the century unfolded. Into the present, it remains a subject without a home.Too Hot to Handle presents the stormy development and dilemmas of school-based sex education in the modern world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction. The Century of School, and the Century of Sex

Chapter One. The Birds, the Bees, and the Globe

Chapter Two. A Family of Man?

Chapter Three. Sex Education and the "Sexual Revolution," 1965- 83

Chapter Four. A Right to Knowledge? Culture, Diversity, and Sex Education in the Age if AIDS, 1984- 2010

Conclusion. a Mirror, Not a Spearhead: Sex Education and the Limits of School

Notes

Manuscript Collections

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-192) and index.

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ISBN:

9780691173665

0691173664

9781400865864

1400865867

OCLC:

966768535