Makes a contribution to the history of sex education by incorporating various aspects of the formal and informal shaping of sexual knowledge and enlightenment of the young, from the school system, the state, the family, the church and the media.

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Lutz D.H. Sauerteig, Lecturer in History of Medicine at Durham University, UK. He is working on a history of sex education of the young (1880s-1970s) and has widely published on the history of venereal diseases in Germany and England. His publications include Krankheit, Sexualität, Gesellschaft: Geschlechtskrankheiten und Gesundheitspolitik in Deutschland im 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert (Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999).

Roger Davidson, Emeritus Professor of Social History and Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, University of Edinburgh, UK. He has widely published on the social history of venereal diseases and sexuality. A former editor of Social History of Medicine, he is currently working on a co-authored study of The Sexual State: Sexuality and Governance in Scotland, 1950-80.

Klappentext

Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth Century Europe makes a considerable contribution to the history of sex education by incorporating all aspects of the formal and informal shaping of sexual knowledge and enlightenment of the young, from the school system, the state, the family, the church and the media.

Inhalt

List of Figures. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: Shaping Sexual Knowledge of the Young. Lutz D.H. Sauerteig and Roger Davidson. Sex Education, Sexual Rights, Society and the Child. 2. In Ignorance and in Knowledge: Reflections on the History of Sex Education in Britain. Lesley A. Hall. 3. Sex Education and the Law in England and Wales: The Importance of Legal Narratives. Ann Blair and Daniel Monk. Shaping Sex Education Policy: Religion, Medicine and the State. 4. Taking the Middle Way: Sex Education Debates in Sweden in the Early Twentieth Century. Lena Lennerhed. 5. The Growing Pains of Sex Education in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), 1945-1969. Mark Fenemore. 6. Purity and Pedagogy: The Alliance-Scottish Council and School Sex Education in Scotland, 1955-1967. Roger Davidson. 7. Carnal Knowledge: The Social Politics and Experience of Sex Education in Italy, 1940-1980. Bruno Wanrooij. Sex Education and the Representation of Gendered and Sexed Bodies. 8. Representations of Pregnancy and Childbirth in (West)German Sex Education Books, 1900s-1970s. Lutz D.H. Sauerteig. 9. Purity Redefined: Catholic Attitudes towards Children's Sex Education in Austria, 1920-1936. Britta McEwen. 10. The Partial Picture: Framing the Discourse of Sex in British Educative Films of the Early 1930s. Barbara Crowther. 11. Helga (1967): West German Sex Education and the Cinema in the 1960s. By Uta Schwarz. Mapping the Sexual Knowledge and Ignorance of the Young. 12. The Social Politics and Experience of Sex Education in Early Twentieth Century Poland (1905-1939). By Magda Gawin. 13. The Experience of Sex Education in the Netherlands and Flanders in Childhood Memories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century. By Hugo Röling. Contributors. References. Index.