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What Adolescents Ought to Know: Sexual Health Texts in Early Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 9781558498914 ;ISBN: 1558498915 ;ISBN: 1558498923 ;ISBN: 9781558498921 ;EISBN: 9781613761854 ;EISBN: 1613761856 ;OCLC: 794700521
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Title:
What Adolescents Ought to Know: Sexual Health Texts in Early Twentieth-Century America
Author:
Pierce, Jennifer Burek
Subjects:
20th century
;
Adolescence
;
Adolescents
;
American
;
Books & Reading
;
Fournier, Alfred
;
France
;
HISTORY
;
LITERARY CRITICISM
;
Sex education
;
Sex instruction for teenagers
;
Sexual behaviour
;
Sexual health
;
Sexuality
;
Sexually transmitted diseases
;
Social History
;
Sources
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U.S.A
;
United States
;
Youth culture
Description:
In 1901, Dr. Alfred Fournier committed an act both simple and revolutionary: he wrote For Our Sons, When They Turn 18, a sexual and reproductive health treatise based on his clinical work at a leading Paris hospital. If this booklet aided adolescent understanding of health, it also encouraged reformers around the world to publish. By 1913, countless works on venereal disease prevention were available to adolescents. During this period, authors wrestled with how to make still-developing scientific information available to a reader also in the process of maturing. What would convince a young person to avoid acting on desire? What norms should be employed in these arguments, when social and legal precedents warned against committing ideas about sex to print? How, in other words, could information about sex be made both decent and compelling? Health reformers struggled with these challenges as doctors’ ability to diagnose diseases such as syphilis outpaced the production of medicines that could restore health. In this context, information represented the best and truest prophylactic. When publications were successful, from the perspective of information dissemination, they were translated and distributed worldwide. What Adolescents Ought to Know explores the evolution of these printed materials—from a single tract, written by a medical researcher and given free to anyone, to a thriving commercial enterprise. It tells the story of how sex education moved from private conversation to purchased text in early twentieth-century America.
Publisher:
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press
Creation Date:
2011
Format:
256
Language:
English
Identifier:
ISBN: 9781558498914
ISBN: 1558498915
ISBN: 1558498923
ISBN: 9781558498921
EISBN: 9781613761854
EISBN: 1613761856
OCLC: 794700521
Source:
Ebook Central Academic Complete
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