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Shaping Sexual Knowledge : A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe, EPUB eBook

Shaping Sexual Knowledge : A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe EPUB

Edited by Lutz Sauerteig, Roger Davidson

Part of the Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine series

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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. Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe makes a considerable contribution not only to the cultural history of sexual enlightenment and identity in modern Europe, but also to the history of childhood and adolescence.

The essays collected in this volume treat sex education in the broadest sense, incorporating 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 and in some cases the Church, but also the content, iconography and experience of sexual enlightenment within the private sphere of the family and as portrayed through the media.

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