{"product_id":"the-transformation-of-american-sex-education-9781479812073","title":"The Transformation of American Sex Education","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive history of the battle over sex education in the United States\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMid-century America had a problem talking about sex. Dr. Mary Calderone first diagnosed this condition and, in 1964, led the uphill battle to de-stigmatize sex education. Supporters hailed her as the “grandmother of modern sex education” while her detractors painted her as an “aging libertine,” but both could agree that she was quickly shaping the way sex was discussed in the classroom. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart biography, part social history, \u003ci\u003eThe Transformation of American Sex Education\u003c\/i\u003e for the first time situates Dr. Mary Calderone at the center of decades of political, cultural, and religious conflict in the fight for comprehensive sex education. Ellen S. More examines Americans’ attempts to come to terms with the vexed subject of sex education in schools from the late 1940s to the early twenty-first century. Using Mary Calderone’s life and career as a touchstone, she traces the origins of modern sex education in the United States from the work of a group of reformers who coalesced around Calderone to create the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) in 1964, to the development and use of the competing approaches known as “abstinence-based” and “comprehensive” sex education from the 1980s into the twenty-first century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating and timely read, \u003ci\u003eThe Transformation of American Sex Education\u003c\/i\u003e provides a substantial contribution to the history of one of America’s most intense and protracted culture wars, and the first account of the woman who fought those battles.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ellen S. More","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48294041256187,"sku":"9781479812073","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_9bf3297d-f505-4044-b7cb-ed3c8a20924b.jpg?v=1780979188","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-transformation-of-american-sex-education-9781479812073","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}