The Trouble with Normal: Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality

by Mary Louise Adams

Book Overview

In the years after the Second World War, economic and social factors combined to produce an intense concern over the sexual development and behaviour of young people. In a context where heterosexuality and 'normality' were understood to be synonymous and assumed to be necessary for social and national stability, teenagers were the target of a range of materials and practices meant to turn young people into proper heterosexuals.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080208057X
• ISBN13: 9780802080578
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"