Introduction -- Part I -- Origins -- Sexual stories : Mary Calderone and the personal politics of sex education -- Sex and marriage counseling before the sexual revolution -- A sex education apprenticeship : Calderone and planned parenthood -- Creating SIECUS : sex education and the challenge of responsible decision-making -- Physician, heal thyself : the medical profession and sex education -- Part II -- Sex education and Its discontents -- Halcyon days -- Broken momentum : enter the opposition -- Beleaguered guru : Mary Calderone after SIECUS -- Fighting for comprehensive sex education -- Sex education and community values : risk reduction or sexual health and justice -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
"This book examines Americans' attempts to come to terms with the vexed subject of sex education in the schools from the late 1940s to the early 21st century. Using Mary Calderone's life and career as a touchstone, it traces the origins of modern sex education in the United States from the work of a group of reformers who coalesced around Calderone to create SIECUS in 1964 through the development and use of the competing approaches known as "abstinence-based" and "comprehensive" sex education from the 1980s into the 21st century"-- Provided by publisher.
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