Book chapter
What Young Readers Ought to Know: The Successful Selling of Sex Education
What Adolescents Ought to Know, p.120
University of Massachusetts Press
04/22/2011
Abstract
Neither the difficulties of financing sexual health education nor its progressive mission could forestall reproaches against the growing body of informative treatises. “There is nothing new about the Seven Deadly Sins,” Agnes Repellier wrote in 1916. Her apologia for innocence and decency, “The Repeal of Reticence,” recoiled from the attention that the Purity Movement and related reform efforts gave to sex and the body. Repellier, a prominent writer for theAtlantic Monthly, found the resulting public discourse distasteful: “Why then do so many men and women talk and write as if they had just discovered these ancient associates of mankind?
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- What Young Readers Ought to Know: The Successful Selling of Sex Education
- Creators
- Jennifer Burek Pierce
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- What Adolescents Ought to Know, p.120
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/22/2011
- Academic Unit
- Interdisciplinary Programs; Library and Information Science
- Record Identifier
- 9984003008602771
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