Talk about sex : the battles over sex education in the United States / Janice M. Irvine.
2002
HQ57.5.A3 I78 2002 (Mapit)
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Talk about sex : the battles over sex education in the United States / Janice M. Irvine.
Author
Irvine, Janice M.
ISBN
0520235037 (alk. paper)
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.
Language
English
Description
xi, 271 p. ; 24 cm.
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HQ57.5.A3 I78 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification
613.9/07/073
Summary
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 the one hand and the politicized Christian Right on the other, Irvine 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 battle-grounds, then went on to dominate the public conversation on the subject. Talk about Sex is a consideration of American sex education's strategic place in the long history of efforts to regulate sexual morality by controlling sexual speech. Irvine's original argument shows how sex education served as a bridge issue between the Old Right and the New Right. Exploring the political uses of emotion as it relates to sexuality, Irvine demonstrates how this movement draws on the tenacious power of sexual shame and fear in order to galvanize opposition to sex education. This book demonstrates how -- by framing sex education as radical, dangerous, and immoral -- the Right has fostered a climate in which it is risky, as former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders found, to speak out in support of sexuality education.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
1. Redefining sex, 1964 : a prologue
2. Days of rage
3. Born-again sexual politics
4. The new sexual revolution
5. Victims, villains, and neighbors
6. Doing it with words
7. The passions of culture wars
8. The politics of aversion
9. If asked, don't tell : a final comment.
2. Days of rage
3. Born-again sexual politics
4. The new sexual revolution
5. Victims, villains, and neighbors
6. Doing it with words
7. The passions of culture wars
8. The politics of aversion
9. If asked, don't tell : a final comment.