The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health by More, Ellen S.
The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health by More, Ellen S.

The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

A comprehensive history of the battle over sex education in the United States Mid-century America had a...
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Author: Ellen S. More
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The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health by More, Ellen S.

The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

$139.88
The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health by More, Ellen S.

The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

$139.88
Author: Ellen S. More
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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A comprehensive history of the battle over sex education in the United States

Mid-century America had a problem talking about sex. Dr. Mary Calderone first diagnosed this condition and, in 1964, led the uphill battle to de-stigmatize sex education. Supporters hailed her as the "grandmother of modern sex education" while her detractors painted her as an "aging libertine," but both could agree that she was quickly shaping the way sex was discussed in the classroom.

Part biography, part social history, The Transformation of American Sex Education for the first time situates Dr. Mary Calderone at the center of decades of political, cultural, and religious conflict in the fight for comprehensive sex education. Ellen S. More examines Americans' attempts to come to terms with the vexed subject of sex education in schools from the late 1940s to the early twenty-first century. Using Mary Calderone's life and career as a touchstone, she traces the origins of modern sex education in the United States from the work of a group of reformers who coalesced around Calderone to create the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) in 1964, to the development and use of the competing approaches known as "abstinence-based" and "comprehensive" sex education from the 1980s into the twenty-first century.

A fascinating and timely read, The Transformation of American Sex Education provides a substantial contribution to the history of one of America's most intense and protracted culture wars, and the first account of the woman who fought those battles.

Author: Ellen S. More
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 01/11/2022
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781479812042


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 10/25/2021

About the Author
Ellen S. More is a historian of the American medical profession. She is Professor Emeritus (Psychiatry) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and author of Restoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995 and co-editor of Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine.
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