The Politics of Virginity: Abstinence in Sex Education

by Jean Calterone Williams and Alesha E. Doan

Book Overview

Abstinence is currently taught as the only form of sex education in a third of public schools. Although most Americans oppose federal funding for abstinence-only education, the federal government has spent more than $1 billion on Title V and community-group programs that promote abstinence before marriage as the sole healthy and moral choice. Studies show that students in abstinence-only programs are no more likely to abstain from sex than their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275990095
• ISBN13: 9780275990091
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"