Too Hot to Handle (ebook)

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"A dense and detailed account of a still surprisingly contentious subject despite our increasingly liberal attitudes."--Lucy Scholes, The Independent

"The book is an excellent source of information for the classroom in a diverse set of studies, such as history, education, human sexuality, gender studies, sociology, psychology and religious studies. Too Hot To Handle engages the reader and is a comfortable, yet interesting read."--Hennie Weiss, Metapsychology Online Reviews

"An excellent, thoroughly researched book on the history of sex education. Clearly it shows the continued need for sexuality education across the globe in order to achieve sexual literacy for the benefit of all."--Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, author (with Pierre A. Lehu) of Dr. Ruth’s Guide to Teens and Sex Today

"Too Hot to Handle offers a sweeping historical look at one of the most controversial school reform initiatives of the past century. Bringing to life the fascinating individuals, organizations, and foundations that advocated sex education, Zimmerman shows how their ideas were undermined by opponents. There is no other book like this one in print."--William J. Reese, University of Wisconsin–Madison

"Jonathan Zimmerman’s work is characterized by a broadness of conception that takes the history of education outside the classroom and attaches it to broader trends in American society, shedding light not only on the history of education, but on American social and political history in its global context. In Too Hot to Handle, Zimmerman looks at the story of sex education and takes it far beyond any other work on the subject."--Jeffrey P. Moran, University of Kansas

"Zimmerman's well-documented research offers a history of brave and reasoned efforts - to inform without inciting prurience, to warn without explaining, to respect without offending - that have all failed to win consensus or even to achieve demonstrable results."--Choice

"Zimmerman’s rich book is a history of schools and education as much as it is a history of sex. It brings a curiously fresh approach to accounts of sex education. . . . A major new account of a topic that has received some considerable attention in past decades of historical scholarship."--Alison Bashford, Journal of American History

"Using extensive research backed by an impressive notes section, Zimmerman (Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century, 2009, etc.) untangles the complex history of how and why sex education was first introduced as a specific subject to be taught in schools and its subsequent rise and fall as a teachable course over the past 100 years."--Kirkus0ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION - THE CENTURY OF SCHOOL, AND THE CENTURY OF SEX 1
CHAPTER 1 THE BIRDS, THE BEES, AND THE GLOBE: THE ORIGINS OF SEX EDUCATION, 1898-1939 14
CHAPTER 2 A FAMILY OF MAN? SEX EDUCATION IN A COLD WAR WORLD, 1940-64 49
CHAPTER 3 SEX EDUCATION AND THE "SEXUAL REVOLUTION," 1965-83 80
CHAPTER 4 A RIGHT TO KNOWLEDGE? CULTURE, DIVERSITY, AND SEX EDUCATION IN THE AGE OF AIDS, 1984-2010 115
CONCLUSION - A MIRROR, NOT A SPEARHEAD: SEX EDUCATION AND THE LIMITS OF SCHOOL 144
NOTES 153
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS 193
INDEX 197