Roger Davidson / Lutz Sauerteig (eds.)

Shaping Sexual Knowledge

A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe
Herausgeber: Sauerteig, Lutz; Davidson, Roger

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume makes a considerable contribution to the history of sex education. This book treats sex education in the broadest sense to incorporate all aspects of the formal and informal shaping of sexual knowledge and awareness of the young. The volume, therefore, not only addresses officially-sanctioned and regulated sex education delivered within the school system and regulated by the State, but also sex education taking place within the private sphere of the family and obtained through the media such as sex education books and films. The history of sex education enables us to gain valuable insights into the cultural constructions of what different societies have defined as 'normal' sexuality and sexual health. Yet, the history of sex education has only recently attracted the full attention of historians of modern sexuality.

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Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe makes a considerable contribution to the history of sex education by incorporating all aspects of the formal and informal shaping of sexual knowledge and enlightenment of the young, from the school system, the state, the family, the church and the media.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780415411141
• ISBN-10: 0415411149
• Artikelnr.: 22585303

Autorenporträt

Lutz D.H. Sauerteig, Lecturer in History of Medicine at Durham University, UK. He is working on a history of sex education of the young (1880s-1970s) and has widely published on the history of venereal diseases in Germany and England. His publications include Krankheit, Sexualität, Gesellschaft: Geschlechtskrankheiten und Gesundheitspolitik in Deutschland im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999). Roger Davidson, Emeritus Professor of Social History and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, University of Edinburgh, UK. He has widely published on the social history of venereal diseases and sexuality. A former editor of Social History of Medicine, he is currently working on a co-authored study of The Sexual State: Sexuality and Governance in Scotland, 1950-80.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Shaping Sexual Knowledge
of the Young. Lutz D.H. Sauerteig and Roger Davidson. Sex Education, Sexual
Rights, Society and the Child. 2. In Ignorance and in Knowledge:
Reflections on the History of Sex Education in Britain. Lesley A. Hall. 3.
Sex Education and the Law in England and Wales: The Importance of Legal
Narratives. Ann Blair and Daniel Monk. Shaping Sex Education Policy:
Religion, Medicine and the State. 4. Taking the Middle Way: Sex Education
Debates in Sweden in the Early Twentieth Century. Lena Lennerhed. 5. The
Growing Pains of Sex Education in the German Democratic Republic (GDR),
1945-1969. Mark Fenemore. 6. Purity and Pedagogy: The Alliance-Scottish
Council and School Sex Education in Scotland, 1955-1967. Roger Davidson. 7.
Carnal Knowledge: The Social Politics and Experience of Sex Education in
Italy, 1940-1980. Bruno Wanrooij. Sex Education and the Representation of
Gendered and Sexed Bodies. 8. Representations of Pregnancy and Childbirth
in (West)German Sex Education Books, 1900s-1970s. Lutz D.H. Sauerteig. 9.
Purity Redefined: Catholic Attitudes towards Children¿s Sex Education in
Austria, 1920-1936. Britta McEwen. 10. The Partial Picture: Framing the
Discourse of Sex in British Educative Films of the Early 1930s. Barbara
Crowther. 11. Helga (1967): West German Sex Education and the Cinema in the
1960s. By Uta Schwarz. Mapping the Sexual Knowledge and Ignorance of the
Young. 12. The Social Politics and Experience of Sex Education in Early
Twentieth Century Poland (1905-1939). By Magda Gawin. 13. The Experience of
Sex Education in the Netherlands and Flanders in Childhood Memories from
the First Half of the Twentieth Century. By Hugo Röling. Contributors.
References. Index.