Sexual Pedagogies
Subtitle: Sex Education in Britain, Australia, and America, 1879-2000
Contributors: Claudia Nelson (Editor); Michelle H. Martin (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: January 3, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781403963505
Subjects: Cultural studies; Curriculum planning & development; Sexual behaviour; Teaching of a specific subject; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Love / Sex / Marriage; Education; United States; Australia; British Isles; USA; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Semiotics & Theory; Curricula; Sexuality; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; Great Britain; History; Sex instruction
First sentence: Victorian sex-education manuals aimed at the young often sought to preserve the child's purity while still enlightening readers about where babies come from.
Description: "Sex education" extends beyond the classroom and beyond childhood. As this collection of seven new essays shows, many kinds of texts have tried to shape their audiences' sexual understanding, from 19th-century erotica to 20th-century sermons on abstinence, marriage manuals to feminine-hygiene pamphlets, Hollywood comedies about sexual coming-of-age to picture books validating homosexuality. Together, the essays in this book seek to illustrate the many responses that Anglophone culture has had to changes in sexual mores. Focusing on three nations, this anthology examines the interplay of radical and conservative ideologies of sex, noting the influence of market forces, cultural beliefs about childhood and gender, and in some cases geopolitics.