Condom Nation The U. S. Government's Sex Education Campaign from World War I to the Internet

Name: Condom Nation The U. S. Government's Sex Education Campaign from World War I to the Internet
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ISBN: 9780801893803

ISBN-10: 0801893801

ISBN-13: 9780801893803

Edition: 2009

Authors: Alexandra M. Lord

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This history of the U.S. Public Health Service's efforts to educate Americans about sex makes clear why federally funded sex education has been haphazard, ad hoc, and often ineffectual.Since launching its first sex ed program during World War I, the Public Health Service has dominated federal sex education efforts. Alexandra Lord draws on medical research, news reports, the expansive records of the Public Health Service, and interviews with former surgeons general to examine this history from that early initiative through the administration of George W. Bush.Giving equal voice to many different groups in America -- middle-class, working-class, black, white, urban, rural, Christian and…

Book details

List price: $47.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Alexandra M. Lord received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She previously served as a historian with the U.S. Public Health Service.



Acknowledgments


A Word on Terminology



In Bed with the Fed



The People's War, 1918-1926



Battling the Mad Dog, 1927-1940



Lifting the Shadow from the Land, 1941-1945



A False Sense of Security, 1946-1959



Making Love, Not Babies or Disease, 1960-1980



Telling It Like It Is, 1981-1988



Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder, 1989-2008


Epilogue


Notes


Index