When Sex Goes to School : Warring Views on Sex--and Sex Education--Since the Sixties Paperback / softback
by Kristin Luker
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A chronicle of the two decades that noted sociologist Kristin Luker spent following parents in four America communities engaged in a passionate war of ideas and values, When Sex Goes to School explores a conflict with stakes that are deceptively simple and painfully personal.
For these parents, the question of how their children should be taught about sex cuts far deeper than politics, religion, or even friendship. "The drama of this book comes from watching the exceptionally thoughtful Luker try to figure [sex education] out" (Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review).
In doing so, Luker also traces the origins of sex education from the turn-of-the-century hygienist movement to the marriage-obsessed 1950s and the sexual and gender upheavals of the 1960s.
Her unexpected conclusions make it impossible to look at the intersections of the private and the political in the same way.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:14/03/2007
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- ISBN:9780393329964
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:384 pages
- Publisher:WW Norton & Co
- Publication Date:14/03/2007
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- ISBN:9780393329964