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Teaching America About Sex: Marriage Guides and Sex Manuals from the Late Victorians to Dr. Ruth
Teaching America About Sex Marriage Guides and Sex Manuals from the Late Victorians to Dr Ruth
Author: M. Melody, Linda Peterson
In this witty and provocative study of sex and marriage manuals, M.E. Melody and Linda M. Peterson reveal that permissiveness, prohibition, and, tellingly, persuasion and enforcement-from sermons and hellfire to mutilation and electroshock-have informed popular sex education over the past hundred and twenty years.From the late Victorian obsessio...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780814755327
ISBN-10: 0814755321
Publication Date: 5/1/1999
Pages: 296
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Publisher: NYU Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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