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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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in Gender and History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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