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

by Sauerteig; Lutz

• ISBN13: 9780415411141
• ISBN10: 0415411149
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Shaping the Sexual Knowledge of the Young: Introduction	p. 1
Sex Education, Sexual Rights, Society and the Child
In Ignorance and in Knowledge: Reflections on the History of Sex Education in Britain	p. 19
Sex Education and the Law in England and Wales: The Importance of Legal Narratives	p. 37
Shaping Sex Education Policy: Religion, Medicine and the State
Taking the Middle Way: Sex Education Debates in Sweden in the Early Twentieth Century	p. 55
The Growing Pains of Sex Education in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), 1945-69	p. 71
Purity and Pedagogy: The Alliance-Scottish Council and School Sex Education in Scotland, 1955-67	p. 91
Carnal Knowledge: The Social Politics and Experience of Sex Education in Italy, 1940-80	p. 108
Sex Education and the Representation of Gendered and Sexed Bodies
Representations of Pregnancy and Childbirth in (West) German Sex Education Books, 1900s-1970s	p. 129
Purity Redefined: Catholic Attitudes Towards Children's Sex Education in Austria, 1920-36	p. 161
The Partial Picture: Framing the Discourse of Sex in British Educative Films of the Early 1930s	p. 176
Helga (1967): West German Sex Education and the Cinema in the 1960s	p. 197
Mapping the Sexual Knowledge and Ignorance of the Young
The Social Politics and Experience of Sex Education in Early Twentieth-Century Poland (1905-39)	p. 217
The Experience of Sex Education in the Netherlands and Flanders in Childhood Memories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century	p. 236
Notes on Contributors	p. 251
Index	p. 254
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