"This judicious and perceptive book will be read not only by
academics but by serious readers interested in sexuality, culture,
and public policy. Irvine explores the clash between professional
sex education advocates and politicized Christian evangelicals that
has played out on the stage of local communities and school systems
since the 1960s. She illuminates a significant yet largely unknown
story of the politics of sexuality."--Kathy Peiss, author of "Hope
in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture
"Irvine's work is a serious and passionate study; it is
respectful of its subject while at the same time retaining its
critical edge and its political principles."--Margaret Hunt, author
of "The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender and the Family in England
1680-1780
"Irvine has written an unusually rich social history that makes
a significant contribution to several fields of scholarly inquiry.
Her book provides by far the best account we have of SIECUS (Mary
Calderone's pioneering organization). It also provides an
innovative analysis of the rise of the Christian Right in the '70s
and a highly imaginative narrative of the 'sexualization' of
Christian evangelicalism and its successful manipulation of
collective emotions for political ends."--Martin Duberman, editor
of "Beyond Gay or Straight: Understanding Sexual Orientation
"One comes away from reading this book with renewed appreciation
for the creative potential of words and symbols in framing how we
think about something so ordinary, if I may say so, as sex!"--Wade
Clark Roof, author of "Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the
Remaking of American Religion
"While there are books that are central in this area, nonecovers
the sex education debates or accomplishes the theoretical moves
undertaken here."--Cindy Patton, author of "Globalizing AIDS
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