Teaching America about Sex
Subtitle: Marriage Guides and Sex Manuals from the Late Victorians to Dr. Ruth
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: May 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780814755327
Subjects: Gender Studies; History of ideas, intellectual history; Sexual behaviour; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Human Sexuality; Sex Education; Sex Relations; Sociology; Psychology; USA; Marriage; Anthropology - Cultural; Sexuality; Self-Help / Sexual Instruction; United States; Handbooks, manuals, etc; Handbooks, manuals, etc; History; Sex instruction
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."--BOOK JACKET.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.