Sex Ed, Segregated: The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive-Era America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781580465359)

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 sexual knowledge 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.

Author: Courtney Q. Shah
ISBN-10: 1580465358
ISBN-13: 9781580465359
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2015
Pages: 228
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2016