Talk about Sex
Subtitle: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: September 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780520235038
Subjects: Anthropology; Freedom of information & freedom of speech; Organization & management of education; Sex & sexuality; Sex instruction; Educational Policy & Reform; Education; Education / Teaching; Family/Marriage; USA; Sexuality; Philosophy & Social Aspects; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Special Education - General; Community and school; United States
Description: "In this book, Janice M. Irvine offers not only the first comprehensive history of the culture wars over sex education, but also an important examination of the politics of sexual speech in the United States. Exploring the clash between professional sex education advocates on one hand and the politicized Christian Right on the other, Irvine vividly demonstrates the crucial role that sexual speech plays in cultural politics.

Examining a range of issues played out in living rooms and schools since the 1960s, she shows how a newly emerging Christian Right chose sex education as one of its first battlegrounds, then went on to dominate the public conversation on the subject. Talk about Sex is a rich and fascinating consideration of American sex education's strategic place in the long history of efforts to regulate sexual morality by controlling sexual speech."--BOOK JACKET.