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Sex Ed, Segregated - The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive-Era America (Hardcover)
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Sex Ed, Segregated - The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive-Era America (Hardcover)
Series: Gender and Race in American History
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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.
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