@article{1478608,
      recid = {1478608},
      author = {Moran, Jeffrey P., },
      title = {Teaching Sex : The Shaping of Adolescence in the 20th  Century /},
      pages = {1 online resource (304 p.)},
      abstract = {Sex education, since its advent at the dawn of the  twentieth century, has provoked the hopes and fears of  generations of parents, educators, politicians, and  reformers. On its success or failure seems to hinge the  moral fate of the nation and its future citizens. But  whether we argue over condom distribution to teenagers or  the use of an anti-abortion curriculum in high schools, we  rarely question the basic premise--that adolescents need to  be educated about sex. How did we come to expect the public  schools to manage our children's sexuality? More important,  what is it about the adolescent that arouses so much  anxiety among adults? Teaching Sex travels back over the  past century to trace the emergence of the "sexual  adolescent" and the evolution of the schools' efforts to  teach sex to this captive pupil. Jeffrey Moran takes us on  a fascinating ride through America's sexual mores: from a  time when young men were warned about the crippling effects  of masturbation, to the belief that schools could and  should train adolescents in proper courtship and parenting  techniques, to the reemergence of sexual abstention brought  by the AIDS crisis. We see how the political and moral  anxieties of each era found their way into sex education  curricula, reflecting the priorities of the elders more  than the concerns of the young. Moran illuminates the  aspirations and limits of sex education and the ability of  public authority to shape private behavior. More than a  critique of public health policy, Teaching Sex is a broad  cultural inquiry into America's understanding of  adolescence, sexual morality, and social reform.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478608},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674041219},
}