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Sex Ed, Segregated (Gender and Race in American History)
Courtney Q. Shah
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Description for Sex Ed, Segregated (Gender and Race in American History)
Hardcover. Demonstrates that the intersection between race, gender, and class formed the backbone of Progressive-Era debates over sex education, the policing of sexuality, and the prevention of venereal disease. Series: Gender and Race in American History. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSJ; JFSL; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
Demonstrates that the intersection between race, gender, and class formed the backbone of Progressive-Era debates over sex education, the policing of sexuality, and the prevention of venereal disease. 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 sexualknowledge 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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Rochester Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
Rochester, United States
ISBN
9781580465359
SKU
V9781580465359
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for Sex Ed, Segregated (Gender and Race in American History)
Very classroom friendly, and would be a welcome addition to specialized courses on the American Progressive Movement of the History of Sexuality in the United States, as well as general courses in American social and cultural history or the medical humanities.
AMERIKASTUDIEN
[A] nuanced and inclusive account.... The result is compelling insight into aspects of American sexual history that have until now gone without substantial analysis.
SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Shah's telling of their story is ultimately well written and interesting, making this book a useful introduction for those familiarizing themselves with America's contentious sex education debates.
BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Shah's compact volume is well written and is ideally suited for undergraduates seeking a broad synthesis of the role race, gender, and class played not only in the development of sex education but also in the Progressive Era more generally.
H-NET
[Shah] exposes ways that whiteness denoted purity and middle-class respectability, excluding racial minorities, the working class, and poor, rural, and Southern populations from many reform efforts. Recommended.
CHOICE
AMERIKASTUDIEN
[A] nuanced and inclusive account.... The result is compelling insight into aspects of American sexual history that have until now gone without substantial analysis.
SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Shah's telling of their story is ultimately well written and interesting, making this book a useful introduction for those familiarizing themselves with America's contentious sex education debates.
BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE
Shah's compact volume is well written and is ideally suited for undergraduates seeking a broad synthesis of the role race, gender, and class played not only in the development of sex education but also in the Progressive Era more generally.
H-NET
[Shah] exposes ways that whiteness denoted purity and middle-class respectability, excluding racial minorities, the working class, and poor, rural, and Southern populations from many reform efforts. Recommended.
CHOICE