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Sexual Pedagogies

Sex Education in Britain, Australia, and America, 1879–2000

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  • © 2004

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  1. Claudia Nelson

    1. Texas A&M University, USA

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  2. Michelle H. Martin

    1. Clemson University, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Claudia Nelson, Michelle H. Martin
    Pages 1-13

  3. That Other Eden: Adult Education and Youthful Sexuality in The Pearl, 1879–1880

    • Claudia Nelson
    Pages 15-32

  4. Ignorance Is Not Innocence: Sex Education in Australia, 1890–1939

    • Shurlee Swain, Ellen Warne, Margot Hillel
    Pages 33-52

  5. Eyes Tightly Shut, Lying Rigidly Still, and Thinking of England? British Women and Sex from Marie Stopes to Hite 2000

    • Lesley A. Hall
    Pages 53-71

  6. Molding the Man: Sex-Education Manuals for Australian Boys in the 1950s

    • Sharyn Pearce
    Pages 73-93

  7. He’s Gotta Have It: Teen Film as Sex Education

    • Kenneth Kidd
    Pages 95-112

  8. Power and Repression/Repression and Power: Homosexuality in Subversive Picture Books and Conservative Youth Novels

    • Angela M. Salas
    Pages 113-133

  9. “No One Will Ever Know Your Secret!” Commercial Puberty Pamphlets for Girls from the 1940s to the 1990s

    • Michelle H. Martin
    Pages 135-154

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 155-159
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Understandings of sexuality and sex education have changed dramatically, and in this collection, the authors explore the various texts that were used to teach, to entertain, to sanction and to form a sexual standard for a nation. According to Nelson and Martin, these include a puberty education, sermons on abstinence, medical writings promoting sexual fulfillment, Hollywood comedies about sexual coming of age and picture books validating homosexuality. The essays included here are designed to illustrate the many responses that Anglophone culture has had to such texts for over a century.

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"Why do some sexual pedagogies succeed and some, perhaps most, fail? Sex education - the whole question of who should be entrusted to persuade whom to do what - has never been so hotly contested as it is today. Yet in many ways the relationship between what is taught and what is practised is as little understood as ever. This thought-provoking volume looks unblinkingly at over a century of efforts, in Britain, the United States and Australia, to intervene in citizens' understandings of their own desires. The contributors take to task purveyors of pornography, children's books, films, sex manuals and tampons, and illuminate some surprising conjunctions between gender, sex and the marketplace." - Trev Lynn Broughton, Center for Women's Studies, University of York

"Nelson and Martin are among the brightest of the younger scholars in the field of children's studies...Sexual Pedagogies reflects a high standard of scholarship, comprehension of a very controversial topic, and original thinking...This is a book that will make students, scholars, librarians, and the general reader think carefully about the problematic nature of sex education." - Jack Zipes, Department of German, University of Minnesota and author of The Brothers Grimm (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Texas A&M University, USA

    Claudia Nelson

  • Clemson University, USA

    Michelle H. Martin

About the editors

LESLEY HALL Archivist in the Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London, UK MARGOT HILLEL Head of the School of Arts and Sciences (Victoria), Australian Catholic University, Australia KENNETH KIDD Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida, USA MICHELLE MARTIN Assistant Professor of English at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA CLAUDIA NELSON Associate Professor of English at Texas A & M University, USA SHARYN PEARCE Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Creative Industries at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia ANGELA M. SALAS received her Ph. D. from the University of Nebraska, USA SHURLEE SWAIN Reader in History at Australian Catholic University, Australia ELLEN WARNE Reseach Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Melbourne, Australia

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