What Adolescents Ought to Know

by Pierce, Jennifer Burek

• ISBN13: 9781558498921
• ISBN10: 1558498923
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-06-30
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

In 1901, Dr. Alfred Fournier committed an act both simple and revolutionary: he wrote For Our Sons, When They Turn 18, a sexual and reproductive health treatise based on his clinical work at a leading Paris hospital. If this booklet aided adolescent understanding of health, it also encouraged reformers around the world to publish. By 1913, countless works on venereal disease prevention were available to adolescents.

Author Biography

Jennifer Burek Pierce is assistant professor at the University of Iowa's School of Library and Information Science and author of Sex, Brains, and Video Games: A Librarian's Guide to Teens in the Twenty-first Century.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
French Origins of International Sexual Health Communication with Adolescents	p. 19
Initial Transnational Intersections: French Texts and American Culture	p. 63
Social Hygiene vs. the Sexual Plagues in Indiana and the World	p. 89
What Young Readers Ought to Know: The Successful Selling of Sex Education	p. 120
Battling Books: Censorship, Conservatism, and Market Competition	p. 152
Conclusion	p. 178
Notes	p. 193
Index	p. 227
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