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Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education
Zimmerman
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Description for Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education
Hardback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JNB; JNU; YXAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 149 x 27. Weight in Grams: 404.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
403g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691143101
SKU
V9780691143101
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About Zimmerman
Jonathan Zimmerman is professor of education and history at New York University. His books include Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory and Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications.
Reviews for Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education
"Using extensive research backed by an impressive notes section, Zimmerman (Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century, 2009, etc.) untangles the complex history of how and why sex education was first introduced as a specific subject to be taught in schools and its subsequent rise and fall as a teachable course over the past 100 years."
Kirkus "A dense and ... Read more
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