Judith

2002 · 34474 — Chicago Illinois U.S.A.: Univ of Minnesota Pr. New. 2002. Hardcover. 0816640068 . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- 299 pages; clean and crisp tight and bright pages with no writing or markings to the text. -- TABLE OF CONTENTS: Foreword Author's Note Acknowledgments Introduction: Peril and Pleasure Parenting and Childhood I Harmful Protection 1 Censorship: The Sexual Media and the Ambivalence of Knowing 2 Manhunt: The Pedophile Panic 3 Therapy: "Children Who Molest" and the Tyranny of the Normal 4 Crimes of Passion: Statutory Rape and the Denial of Female Desire 5 No-Sex Education: From "Chastity" to "Abstinence" 6 Compulsory Motherhood: The End of Abortion 7 The Expurgation of Pleasure II Sense and Sexuality 8 The Facts: . And Truthful Fictions 9 What Is Wanting : Gender Equality and Desire 10 Good Touch: A Sensual Education 11 Community: Risk Identity and Love in the Age of AIDS Epilogue: Morality Notes Index. -- DESCRIPTION: Sex is a wonderful crucial part of growing up and children and teens can enjoy the pleasures of the body and be safe too. In this important and controversial book Judith Levine makes this argument and goes further asserting that America's attempts to protect children from sex are worse than ineffectual. It is the assumption of danger and the exclusive focus on protection-what Levine terms "the sexual politics of fear"-that are themselves harmful to minors. Through interviews with young people and their parents stories drawn from today's headlines visits to classrooms and clinics and a look back at the ways sex among children and teenagers has been viewed throughout history Judith Levine debunks some of the dominant myths of our society. She examines and challenges widespread anxieties pedophilia stranger kidnapping Internet pornography and sacred cows abstinence-based sex education statutory rape laws. Levine investigates the policies and practices that affect kids' sex lives-censorship psychology sex and AIDS education family criminal and reproductive law and the journalism that begs for "solutions" while inciting more fear. Harmful to Minors offers fresh alternatives to fear and silence describing sex-positive approaches that are ethically based and focus on common sense. Levine provides optimistic though realistic prescriptions for how we might do better in guiding children toward loving well-that is safely pleasurably and with respect for others and themselves. -- AUTHOR: Judith Levine is a journalist essayist and author who has written about sex gender and families for two decades. Her articles appear regularly in national publications most recently Ms. nerve.com and My Generation. An activist for free speech and sex education Levine is a founder of the feminist group No More Nice Girls and the National Writers Union. She is the author of My Enemy My Love: Women Men and the Dilemmas of Gender 1992 and lives in Brooklyn New York and Hardwick Vermont. -- with a bonus offer-- . Univ of Minnesota Pr hardcover