Teaching America about sex
Subtitle: marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth
By: M.E. Melody and Linda M. Peterson
Contributors: Peterson, Linda Mary, 1947-
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780585326252
Subjects: Sex instruction; Handbooks, manuals; History; Sex Education; Sex Manuals; Éducation sexuelle; Guides, manuels; Histoire; HEALTH & FITNESS; Sexuality; MEDICAL; Reproductive Medicine & Technology; Seksuele voorlichting; Gidsen (naslagwerken)
Description: "This witty and provocative study of sex and marriage manuals reveals the patterns of permissiveness and prohibition, and, tellingly, the mechanisms of suasion and enforcement - from sermons and hellfire to mutilation and electroshock - that have informed popular sex education over the past hundred and twenty years." "From the roaring '20s to the 1960s sexual revolution and after, Teaching America about Sex reveals that, even as sexual behavior changed during periods of upheaval, the prescriptive literature on sex has remained traditional at its core, promoting primarily sex within marriage for the purpose of reproduction."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index.
Table of contents: title: The late Victorians and the spermatic political economy  -- Henry Hanchett, John Harvey Kellogg, Henry Guernsey; title: "No gods no masters": Margaret Sanger and America's sexual future  -- Margaret Sanger; title: The 1920s and America's first sexual eruption  -- Joseph Collins [and others]; title: Sexual eruption and then reaction: the interwar years  -- Theodore van de Velde; title: One step forward, two steps back: sex and pleasure in the 1950s  -- Hannah M. Stone and Abraham Stone, Eustace Chesser; title: Sexual upheaval in the 1960s: counterculture, counter-sex  -- David Reuben; title: Joy through peak experiences in the 1970s  -- Alex Comfort; title: Does pleasure demand the conjunction of particular body parts? Gay and lesbian sex  -- Charles Silverstein [and others]; title: Another reaction: Dr. Ruth defends marriage  -- Ruth Westheimer; title: On penetrative power.