When Sex Goes to School - Warring Views on Sex--And Sex Education--Since the Sixties

"The drama of this book comes from watching the exceptionally thoughtful Luker try to figure [sex education] out" (Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review). In doing so, Luker also traces the origins of sex education from the turn-of-the-century hygienist movement to the marriage-obsessed 1950s and the sexual and gender upheavals of the 1960s. Her unexpected conclusions make it impossible to look at the intersections of the private and the political in the same way.

About the author

Kristin Luker is a professor of sociology at the University of California-Berkeley and a professor at Boalt Law School. She is the author of the landmark book Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood and lives in Berkeley, California.

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Luker
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2007
• EAN: 9780393329964
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32996-4
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 525 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries