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Author Slominski, Kristy L

Title Teaching Moral Sex A History of Religion and Sex Education in the United States
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (377 p.)
Contents Cover -- Teaching Moral Sex -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Archival Collections -- Introduction: Liberal Protestants and the Sex Education Movement -- 1. Medical Men, Moralists, and the Roots of Sex Education -- 2. Moral Education about Sex in the YMCA and Military -- 3. Church, Sex, and "Judeo-​Christian" Family Life Education -- 4. The New Morality of Comprehensive Sexuality Education -- 5. Abstinence-​Only and the Struggle to Define Sex Education -- Epilogue: The Swinging Pendulum of Sex Education -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary Teaching Moral Sex is the first comprehensive study of the role of religion in the history of public sex education in the United States from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first. Far from being a barrier to sex education, Kristy Slominski demonstrates, religion has been deeply embedded in the history of sex education, and its legacy has shaped the terms of current debates
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Sex instruction for youth -- United States -- History
Sex instruction for teenagers -- United States -- History
Sex instruction for youth -- United States -- Religious aspects
Sexual ethics for youth -- United States
Public schools -- United States
Public schools
Sex instruction for teenagers
Sex instruction for youth
Sex instruction for youth -- Religious aspects
Sexual ethics for youth
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780190842192
0190842199