Book chapter
Battling Books: Censorship, Conservatism, and Market Competition
What Adolescents Ought to Know, p.152
University of Massachusetts Press
04/22/2011
Abstract
Even as humanitarian and opportunistic impulses shaped the distinctive print culture of Progressive Era hygiene literature, equally forceful voices countered the aspirations of the genre’s progenitors. The best-known hygiene titles for young readers realized significant circulation in the early twentieth century, and the realities of a growing market inspired imitators as well as opponents of sharing real knowledge about reproduction with adolescents. Challenges to hygiene titles emerged from outside the industry and within. Paul S. Boyer has aptly noted that when considered in its cultural context, “censorship history became considerably more complex and less black and white.”¹ The related early
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Battling Books: Censorship, Conservatism, and Market Competition
- Creators
- Jennifer Burek Pierce
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- What Adolescents Ought to Know, p.152
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/22/2011
- Academic Unit
- Interdisciplinary Programs; Library and Information Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984003175902771
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