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Sexual Pedagogies
. Ed(S): Nelson, C.; Martin, M.
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Description for Sexual Pedagogies
Paperback. "Sexual Pedagogies" explores the nature and content of sex teaching in a variety of genres in America, Australia, and Britain from the Victorian era to present day. Editor(s): Nelson, C.; Martin, M. Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ; JNB; JNKC; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 9. Weight in Grams: 227.
Understandings of sexuality and sex education have changed dramatically, and in this collection, the authors explore the various texts that were used to teach, to entertain, to sanction and to form a sexual standard for a nation. According to Nelson and Martin, these include a puberty education, sermons on abstinence, medical writings promoting sexual fulfillment, Hollywood comedies about sexual coming of age and picture books validating homosexuality. The essays included here are designed to illustrate the many responses that Anglophone culture has had to such texts for over a century.
Understandings of sexuality and sex education have changed dramatically, and in this collection, the authors explore the various texts that were used to teach, to entertain, to sanction and to form a sexual standard for a nation. According to Nelson and Martin, these include a puberty education, sermons on abstinence, medical writings promoting sexual fulfillment, Hollywood comedies about sexual coming of age and picture books validating homosexuality. The essays included here are designed to illustrate the many responses that Anglophone culture has had to such texts for over a century.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
171
Condition
New
Number of Pages
159
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349527526
SKU
V9781349527526
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Nelson, C.; Martin, M.
LESLEY HALL Archivist in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London, UK MARGOT HILLEL Head of the School of Arts and Sciences (Victoria), Australian Catholic University, Australia KENNETH KIDD Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA MICHELLE MARTIN Assistant Professor of English at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA CLAUDIA NELSON Associate Professor of ... Read more
Reviews for Sexual Pedagogies
"Why do some sexual pedagogies succeed and some, perhaps most, fail? Sex education - the whole question of who should be entrusted to persuade whom to do what - has never been so hotly contested as it is today. Yet in many ways the relationship between what is taught and what is practised is as little understood as ever. This ... Read more