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What adolescents ought to know : sexual health texts in early twentieth-century America
- Author
- Burek Pierce, Jennifer.
- Title
- What adolescents ought to know : sexual health texts in early twentieth-century America / Jennifer Burek Pierce.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2011.
- Description
- 237 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Uniform series
- Studies in print culture and the history of the book.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- French origins of international sexual health communication with adolescents
- Initial transnational intersections : French texts and American culture
- Social hygiene vs. the sexual plagues in Indiana and the world
- What young readers ought to know : the successful selling of sex education
- Battling books : censorship, conservatism, and market competition.
- Subject headings
- Fournier, Alfred, 1832-1914.
- Kinsey subjects
- Sex education--United States--History--20th century. Sex education--France--History--20th century. Venereal diseases--United States--Prevention--History--20th century. Sex behavior--Adolescent--United States--History--20th century. Health education--Adolescent--United States--History--20th century.
- ISBN
- 9781558498921 (paper : alk. paper) 1558498923 (paper : alk. paper) 9781558498914 (library cloth : alk. paper) 1558498915 (library cloth : alk. paper)