Sex Ed, Segregated: The Quest for Sexual Knowledge in Progressive-Era America

by Courtney Q Shah

Against the backdrop of the Progressive Era, World War I, and the 1920s, sex education burgeoned in the United States through institutions like the YMCA, the popular press, girls' schools, and the US military. As access to sexual knowledge increased, reformers debated what the messages of a sex-education curriculum should be and, perhaps more important, who would receive those messages. Courtney Shah's study chronicles this debate, showing that sex...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580465358
• ISBN13: 9781580465359
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"