Sex Guides: Books and Films about Sexuality for Young Adults

ISBN-13: 9780415788892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 386 str.

Patty Campbell

Opis

The history of the sex guide for adolescents documents the quite unconscious movement of Western culture’s ideas about sex and youth, revealing the heritage of our own sexual beliefs and codes of behaviour. The first section of this book, first published in 1986, traces the development of the sex guide, examining 400 books from 1892 to the 1980s. The second section comprises a detailed analysis of the patterns, content and usefulness of all the contemporary manifestations of the genre. The history of the teen sex manual is a fascinating revelation of American attitudes towards adolescent sexuality.

Spis treści

Part 1. Then  1. What Every Young Man Should Know  2. What Every Young Woman Should Know  3. The Bully Boys and the Rosy Girls  4. Two Trials  5. Between the Wars  6. The Dating Manuals  7. The Sexual Revolution  8. Instant Obsolescence in the Seventies  Part 2. And Now  9. Modern Manuals on the Old Model  10. Young Adult Fiction as Sex Education  11. Religious Sex Prevention Guides  12. Sex Guide Spin-Offs  13. Larger Than Life, or, 16-mm Sex Susan B. Madden  14. The Right Book at the Right Time

O autorze

Patty Campbell