Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924

Jensen, Robin E.

ISBN 10: 0252077660 / ISBN 13: 9780252077661

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2010

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Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924, details the approaches and outcomes of sex-education initiatives in the Progressive Era. In analyzing the rhetorical strategies of sex-education advocates, Robin E. Jensen engages with rich sources such as lectures, books, movies, and posters that were often shaped by female health advocates and instructors. Her narrative demonstrates how women were both leaders and innovators in early U.S. sex-education movements, striving to provide education to underserved populations of women, minorities, and the working class. Investigating the communicative and rhetorical practices surrounding the emergence of public sex education in the United States, Jensen shows how women in particular struggled for a platform to create and circulate arguments concerning this controversial issue.

The book also provides insight into overlooked discourses about public sex education by analyzing a previously understudied campaign targeted at African American men in the 1920's, offering theoretical categorizations of discursive strategies that citizens have used to discuss sex education over time, and laying out implications for health communicators and sexual educators in the present day.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Robin E. Jensen is an assistant professor of communication at Purdue University.

Robin E. Jensen is an assistant professor of communication at Purdue University.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex ...
Verlag: University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket