The schoolhouse has long been a crucible in the construction and contestation of “family values.”
Childhood and Youth
Radical Relations: An Interview with Daniel W. Rivers
The first history of lesbian and gay parents and their children in the United States.
Heterosexuality and Americanization: "Social Education" for Immigrant Youth in the 1920s
An “American Style” marriage, reformers believed, was one solution to the problem of unassimilated immigrants.
Rethinking Bussing in the 1970s: The Sexual Politics of School Integration in the United States
In the United States, racial divisions have long been sexualized.
Stranger Danger and the Sexual Revolution
The sexual content of stranger danger films grew more sexually explicit over time.
"Stranger Danger”: the Public Service film and the protection of Child Sexuality
A number of public service films produced after the Second World War warned children in particular about “Stranger Danger”.
Shirley Temple: The Unwitting Coquette
Hers is a childhood constructed out of our nostalgic desires.