Sex-education. Maurice A. Bigelow

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664653000

Table of Contents

       SUMMARY OF CONTENTS

       I

       The Meaning, Need, and Scope of Sex-education ToC

       II

       The Problems for Sex-education ToC

       III

       Organization of Educational Attack on the Sex Problems ToC

       IV

       The Teacher of Sex-knowledge ToC

       V

       Books as Teachers Concerning Sex and Life ToC

       VI

       Sex-instruction for Pre-adolescent Years ToC

       VII

       Sex-instruction for Early Adolescent Years ToC

       VIII

       Special Sex-instruction for Adolescent Boys and Young Men ToC

       IX

       Special Sex-instruction for Maturing Young Women ToC

       X

       Criticisms of Sex-education ToC

       XI

       The Past and the Future of the Sex-education Movement ToC

       XII

       Some Books for Sex-education ToC

       INDEX ToC

       MODERN PEDAGOGY

      Many of the lectures printed in this volume have formed the basis of a series given at Teachers College, Columbia University, during the summer sessions of 1914 and 1915, and during the academic year 1914–1915. Others were addressed to parents, to groups of men, to women's clubs, and to conferences on sex-education. In order to avoid extensive repetition, there has been some combination and rearrangement of lectures that originally were addressed to groups of people with widely different outlooks on the sexual problems.

      Several years ago the late Dr. Prince A. Morrow announced that a volume dealing with many of the timely topics of sex-education was to be prepared by the undersigned with the advice and criticism of a committee of the American Federation for Sex-Hygiene; but even before Dr. Morrow's death it became evident that this plan was impracticable. Three members (Morrow, Balliet, Bigelow) of the original committee collaborated in a report presented at the XV International Congress on Hygiene and Demography. Since that time the writer, working independently, has found it desirable to reorganize completely the original outline announced by Dr. Morrow.

      In accordance with a declaration made voluntarily in a conversation with Dr. Morrow, the author considers himself pledged to devote all royalties from this book to the movement for sex-education.

      Among the many persons to whom is due acknowledgment of helpfulness in the preparation of this book, the author is especially indebted for suggestions to the late Dr. Prince A. Morrow, to Dr. William F. Snow, Secretary of the American Social Hygiene Association, and to Dr. Edward L. Keyes, Jr., President of the Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis; for constructive criticism, to his colleagues, Professor Jean Broadhurst and Miss Caroline E. Stackpole, of Teachers College, who have read carefully both the original lectures and the completed manuscript; and to Olive Crosby Whitin (Mrs. Frederick H. Whitin), executive secretary of the Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, who has suggested and criticized helpfully both as a reader of the manuscript and as an auditor of many of the lectures delivered at Teachers College.

      M.A.B.

      Teachers College,

       Columbia University,

       December 28, 1915.