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The trouble with normal : postwar youth and the making of heterosexuality
- Title
- The trouble with normal : postwar youth and the making of heterosexuality / Mary Louise Adams.
- Author
- Adams, Mary Louise, 1960-
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HQ27 .A325 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 224 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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 after 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 for both young people and adults."--Jacket
- Series Statement
- Studies in gender and history ; 7
- Uniform Title
- Studies in gender and history ; 7.
- Subject
- Since 1900
- Youth > Sexual behavior > Canada
- Youth > Canada > Social conditions
- Heterosexuality > Canada > History > 20th century
- Sexual orientation > Canada > History > 20th century
- Sex instruction > Canada > History > 20th century
- Heterosexuality
- Young adults > Sexual behavior > Canada
- heterosexuality
- Young adults > Sexual behavior
- Heterosexuality
- Sex instruction
- Sexual orientation
- Social conditions
- Youth > Sexual behavior
- Youth > Social conditions
- Jugend
- Heterosexualität
- Sexualverhalten
- Geschichte 1945-1960
- Canada > Social conditions > 1945-
- Canada
- Kanada
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-214) and index.
- Contents
- 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 Teens -- 6. Sex Goes to School: Debates over Sex Education in Toronto Schools -- 7. Manipulating Innocence: Corruptibility, Youth, and the Case against Obscenity -- 8. Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0802042023
- 9780802042026
- 080208057X
- 9780802080578
- LCCN
- 98116033
- OCLC
- ocm37369358
- 37369358
- SCSB-348762
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library