The Trouble with Normal : : Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality / / Mary Louise Adams.
In the years after the Second World War, economic and social factors combined to produce an intense concern over the sexual development and behaviour of young people. In a context where heterosexuality and 'normality' were understood to be synonymous and assumed to be necessary for social...
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Adams, Mary Louise, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Trouble with Normal : Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality / Mary Louise Adams. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020] ©1997 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Studies in Gender and History Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sexuality and the Postwar Domestic 'Revival' -- 3. Hope for the Future or Repercussions of the Past: Discursive Constructions of Youth -- 4. Youth Gone Bad: The Sexual Meaning of Delinquency -- 5. 'Why Can't I Be Normal?': Sex Advice for Teen -- 6. Sex Goes to School: Debates over Sex Education in Toronto Schools -- 7. Manipulating Innocence: Corruptibility, Youth, and the Case against Obscenity -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources -- Illustration Credits -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the years after the Second World War, economic and social factors combined to produce an intense concern over the sexual development and behaviour of young people. In a context where heterosexuality and 'normality' were understood to be synonymous and assumed to be necessary for social and national stability, teenagers were the target of a range of materials and practices meant to turn young people into proper heterosexuals.In this study, Mary Louise Adams explores discourses about youth and their place in the production and reproduction of heterosexual norms. She examines debates over juvenile delinquency, indecent literature, and sex education to show not why heterosexuality became a peculiar obsession in English Canada following the Second World War as much as how it came to hold such sway.Drawing on feminist theory, cultural studies, and lesbian/gay studies, The Trouble with Normal is the first Canadian study of 'youth' as a sexual and moral category. Adams looks not only at sexual material aimed at teenagers but also at sexual discourses generally, for what they had to say about young people and for the ways in which 'youth,' as a concept, made those discourses work. She argues that postwar insecurities about young people narrowed the sexual possibilities of both young people and adults. While much of the recent history of sexuality examines sexuality 'from the margins,' The Trouble with Normal is firmly committed to examining the 'centre,' to unpacking normality itself. As the first book-length study of the history of sexuality in postwar Canada, it will make an important contribution to the growing international literature on sexual regulation. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Heterosexuality. Hétérosexualité. Jeunes adultes Sexualité Canada. Jeunesse Conditions sociales Canada. Jeunesse Sexualité Canada. Young adults Sexual behavior Canada. Youth Sexual behavior Canada. Youth Social conditions Canada. Youth Canada Social conditions. HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 9783110490947 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442682467 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442682467 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442682467.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Sexuality and the Postwar Domestic 'Revival' -- 3. Hope for the Future or Repercussions of the Past: Discursive Constructions of Youth -- 4. Youth Gone Bad: The Sexual Meaning of Delinquency -- 5. 'Why Can't I Be Normal?': Sex Advice for Teen -- 6. Sex Goes to School: Debates over Sex Education in Toronto Schools -- 7. Manipulating Innocence: Corruptibility, Youth, and the Case against Obscenity -- 8. Conclusion -- Notes -- Sources -- Illustration Credits -- Index |
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