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Author:

Melody, Michael Edward.

Title:

Teaching America about sex : marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth / M.E. Melody and Linda M. Peterson.

Publisher:

New York University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

xii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sex instruction--United States--History.--History.

Other Authors:

Peterson, Linda Mary, 1947-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-274) and index.

Contents:

The late Victorians and the spermatic political economy / Henry Hanchett, John Harvey Kellogg, Henry Guernsey -- "No gods no masters": Margaret Sanger and America's sexual future / Margaret Sanger -- The 1920s and America's first sexual eruption / Joseph Collins ... [et al.] -- Sexual eruption and then reaction: the interwar years / Theodore van de Velde -- One step forward, two steps back: sex and pleasure in the 1950s / Hannah M. Stone and Abraham Stone, Eustace Chesser -- Sexual upheaval in the 1960s: counterculture, counter-sex / David Reuben -- Joy through peak experiences in the 1970s / Alex Comfort -- Does pleasure demand the conjunction of particular body parts? Gay and lesbian sex / Charles Silverstein ... [et al.] -- Another reaction: Dr. Ruth defends marriage / Ruth Westheimer -- On penetrative power.

ISBN:

9780814755327 (cloth : alk. paper)
0814755321 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)41238456

LCCN:

99006300

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GLAX641 -- Marshalltown Community College Library (Marshalltown)