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The first comprehensive history of sex education around the world

Too Hot to Handle is the first truly international history of sex education. As Jonathan Zimmerman shows, the controversial subject began in the West and spread steadily around the world over the past century. As people crossed borders, however, they joined hands to block sex education from most of their classrooms. Examining key players who supported and opposed the sex education movement, Zimmerman takes a close look at one of the most debated and divisive hallmarks of modern schooling.

In the early 1900s, the United States pioneered sex education to protect citizens from venereal disease. But the American approach came under fire after World War II from European countries, which valued individual rights and pleasures over social goals and outcomes. In the so-called Third World, sex education developed in response to the deadly crisis of HIV/AIDS. By the early 2000s, nearly every country in the world addressed sex in its official school curriculum. Still, Zimmerman demonstrates that sex education never won a sustained foothold: parents and religious leaders rejected the subject as an intrusion on their authority, while teachers and principals worried that it would undermine their own tenuous powers. Despite the overall liberalization of sexual attitudes, opposition to sex education increased as the century unfolded. Into the present, it remains a subject without a home.

Too Hot to Handle presents the stormy development and dilemmas of school-based sex education in the modern world.

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"An excellent, thoroughly researched book on the history of sex education. Clearly it shows the continued need for sexuality education across the globe in order to achieve sexual literacy for the benefit of all."--Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer, author (with Pierre A. Lehu) of Dr. Ruth's Guide to Teens and Sex Today

"Too Hot to Handle offers a sweeping historical look at one of the most controversial school reform initiatives of the past century. Bringing to life the fascinating individuals, organizations, and foundations that advocated sex education, Zimmerman shows how their ideas were undermined by opponents. There is no other book like this one in print."--William J. Reese, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Jonathan Zimmerman's work is characterized by a broadness of conception that takes the history of education outside the classroom and attaches it to broader trends in American society, shedding light not only on the history of education, but on American social and political history in its global context. In Too Hot to Handle, Zimmerman looks at the story of sex education and takes it far beyond any other work on the subject."--Jeffrey P. Moran, University of Kansas

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  • Title Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education
  • Author Jonathan Zimmerman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First edition.
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, New Jersey
  • Publication date 2015-02
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780691143101 / 0691143102
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.6 in (24.38 x 16.26 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
  • Category Education / Teaching
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex instruction - History, HISTORY / United States / General
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014043559
  • Dewey Decimal Code 613.907

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Citations

  • Choice, 07/01/2015, Page 0
  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 03/27/2015, Page 17
  • Kirkus Reviews, 12/15/2014, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 02/15/2015, Page 111
  • New York Times Book Review, 04/19/2015, Page 30

About the author

Jonathan Zimmerman is professor of education and history at New York University. His books include Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory and Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications.
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