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A case for sex education that puts it in historical and
philosophical context. In the United States, sex education is more
than just an uncomfortable rite of passage: it's a political hobby
horse that is increasingly out of touch with young people's needs.
In Touchy Subject, philosopher Lauren Bialystok and historian Lisa
M. F. Andersen unpack debates over sex education, explaining why
it's worth fighting for, what points of consensus we can build
upon, and what sort of sex education schools should pursue in the
future. Andersen surveys the history of school-based sex education
in the United States, describing the key question driving reform in
each era. In turn, Bialystok analyzes the controversies over sex
education to make sense of the arguments and offer advice about how
to make educational choices today. Together, Bialystok and Andersen
argue for a novel framework, Democratic Humanistic Sexuality
Education, which exceeds the current conception of "comprehensive
sex education" while making room for contextual variation. More
than giving an honest run-down of the birds and the bees, sex
education should respond to the features of young people's evolving
worlds, especially the digital world, and the inequities that put
some students at much higher risk of sexual harm than others.
Throughout the book, the authors show how sex education has
progressed and how the very concept of "progress" remains
contestable.
A case for sex education that puts it in historical and
philosophical context. In the United States, sex education is more
than just an uncomfortable rite of passage: it's a political hobby
horse that is increasingly out of touch with young people's needs.
In Touchy Subject, philosopher Lauren Bialystok and historian Lisa
M. F. Andersen unpack debates over sex education, explaining why
it's worth fighting for, what points of consensus we can build
upon, and what sort of sex education schools should pursue in the
future. Andersen surveys the history of school-based sex education
in the United States, describing the key question driving reform in
each era. In turn, Bialystok analyzes the controversies over sex
education to make sense of the arguments and offer advice about how
to make educational choices today. Together, Bialystok and Andersen
argue for a novel framework, Democratic Humanistic Sexuality
Education, which exceeds the current conception of "comprehensive
sex education" while making room for contextual variation. More
than giving an honest run-down of the birds and the bees, sex
education should respond to the features of young people's evolving
worlds, especially the digital world, and the inequities that put
some students at much higher risk of sexual harm than others.
Throughout the book, the authors show how sex education has
progressed and how the very concept of "progress" remains
contestable.
The word ""prohibition"" tends to conjure up images of smoky
basement speakeasies, dancing flappers, and hardened gangsters
bootlegging whiskey. Such stereotypes, a prominent historian
recently noted in the Washington Post, confirm that Americans'
""common understanding of the prohibition era is based more on
folklore than fact."" Popular culture has given us a very strong,
and very wrong, picture of what the period was like. Prohibition's
Greatest Myths: The Distilled Truth about America's Anti-A Alcohol
Crusade aims to correct common misperceptions with ten essays by
scholars who have spent their careers studying different aspects of
the era. Each contributor unravels one myth, revealing the
historical evidence that supports, complicates, or refutes our
longA -held beliefs about the Eighteenth Amendment. H. Paul
Thompson Jr., Joe L. Coker, Lisa M. F. Andersen, and Ann Marie E.
Szymanski examine the political and religious factors in early
twentiethA -century America that led to the push for prohibition,
including the temperance movement, the influences of religious
conservatism and liberalism, the legislation of individual
behavior, and the lingering effects of World War I. From there,
several contributors analyze how the laws of prohibition were
enforced. Michael Lewis discredits the idea that alcohol
consumption increased during the era, while Richard F. Hamm
clarifies the connections between prohibition and organized crime,
and Thomas R. Pegram demonstrates that issues other than the
failure of prohibition contributed to the amendment's repeal.
Finally, contributors turn to prohibition's legacy. Mark Lawrence
Schrad, Garrett Peck, and Bob L. Beach discuss the reach of
prohibition beyond the United States, the influence of antiA
-alcohol legislation on Americans' longA term drinking habits, and
efforts to link prohibition with today's debates over the
legalization of marijuana. Together, these essays debunk many of
the myths surrounding ""the Noble Experiment,"" not only providing
a more inA -depth analysis of prohibition but also allowing readers
to engage more meaningfully in contemporary debates about alcohol
and drug policy.
This book introduces the intrepid temperance advocates who formed
America's longest-living minor political party - the Prohibition
Party - drawing on the party's history to illuminate how American
politics came to exclude minor parties from governance. Lisa M. F.
Andersen traces the influence of pressure groups and ballot
reforms, arguing that these innovations created a threshold for
organization and maintenance that required extraordinary financial
and personal resources from parties already lacking in both. More
than most other minor parties, the Prohibition Party resisted an
encroaching Democratic-Republican stranglehold over governance.
When Prohibitionists found themselves excluded from elections, they
devised a variety of tactics: they occupied saloons, pressed
lawsuits, forged utopian communities, and organized dry consumers
to solicit alcohol-free products.
This book introduces the intrepid temperance advocates who formed
America's longest-living minor political party - the Prohibition
Party - drawing on the party's history to illuminate how American
politics came to exclude minor parties from governance. Lisa M. F.
Andersen traces the influence of pressure groups and ballot
reforms, arguing that these innovations created a threshold for
organization and maintenance that required extraordinary financial
and personal resources from parties already lacking in both. More
than most other minor parties, the Prohibition Party resisted an
encroaching Democratic-Republican stranglehold over governance.
When Prohibitionists found themselves excluded from elections, they
devised a variety of tactics: they occupied saloons, pressed
lawsuits, forged utopian communities, and organized dry consumers
to solicit alcohol-free products.
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