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Author Levine, Judith, 1952-

Title Harmful to minors : the perils of protecting children from sex / Judith Levine ; foreword by Joycelyn M. Elders.

Imprint Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.7 L578h    ---  Available
Description xxxv, 299 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-275) and index.
Contents Censorship : the sexual media and the ambivalence of knowing -- Manhunt : the pedophile panic -- Therapy : "children who molest" and the tyranny of the normal -- Crimes of passion : statutory rape and the denial of female desire -- No-sex education : from "chastity" to "abstinence" -- Compulsory motherhood : the end of abortion -- The expurgation of pleasure -- The facts ... and truthful fictions -- What is wanting? gender, equality, and desire -- Good touch : a sensual education -- Community : risk, identity, and love in the age of AIDS.
Subject Sex instruction.
ISBN 0816640068 (alk. paper)

 
    
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