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An edition of The trouble with normal (1997)

The trouble with normal

postwar youth and the making of heterosexuality

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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.

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University of Toronto Press
Language
English
Pages
224

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Subjects

History, Conditions sociales, Youth, Social conditions, Comportement sexuel, Jeunesse, Sex instruction, Jeunes adultes, Sexual orientation, Heterosexuality, Sexual behavior, Hétérosexualité, Heterosexualite, Young adults, Sexualite, Human Sexuality, SELF-HELP, Geschichte 1945-1960, Sexual Instruction, Jugend, PSYCHOLOGY, Sexualverhalten, Modern, Heterosexualita˜t, Youth, sexual behavior

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Canada

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20th century, 1945-

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references: p. [197]-214.
Includes index.

Published in
Toronto, Buffalo
Series
Studies in gender and history ;, 7

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.76/4/097109045
Library of Congress
HQ27 .A233 1997, HQ27.A233 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 224 p., [18] p. of plates :
Number of pages
224

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OL413501M
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troublewithnorma0000adam
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0802042023, 080208057X
LCCN
98116033, cn97931083
OCLC/WorldCat
37369358
Library Thing
364464
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1856827
317907

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