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Teaching sex
the shaping of adolescence in the 20th century
By Moran, Jeffrey P.
- ISBN
- 978-0-67400-227-2
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 15, 2000
Most people assume that adolescence has always been around, but according to Moran (history, Univ. of Kansas), the concept didn't exist until G. Stanley Hall published Adolescence in 1904. That two-volume work dealt with "the special situation and needs of young people who had reached puberty but were still too young to marry"--i.e., with sex education. Moran shows how Victorian principl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
