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- catalog abstract ""Kiss and Tell chronicles the history of sex surveys in the United States over a century of changing social and sexual mores. Julia Ericksen and Sally Steffen reveal that the survey questions asked, more than the answers elicited, expose and shape the popular image of appropriate sexuality. We can learn as much about the history and practice of sexuality by looking at surveyors' changing concerns as we can by reading the results of their surveys. The authors show how surveys have reflected societal anxieties about adolescent development, teen sex and promiscuity, and AIDS, and have been employed in efforts to preserve marriage and to control women's sexuality." "Kiss and Tell is an important examination of the role of social science in shaping American sexual patterns. Revealing how surveys of sexual behavior help create the issues they purport merely to describe, it reminds us how malleable and imperfect our knowledge of sexual behavior is."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11066552.
- catalog contributor b11066553.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""Kiss and Tell chronicles the history of sex surveys in the United States over a century of changing social and sexual mores. Julia Ericksen and Sally Steffen reveal that the survey questions asked, more than the answers elicited, expose and shape the popular image of appropriate sexuality. We can learn as much about the history and practice of sexuality by looking at surveyors' changing concerns as we can by reading the results of their surveys. The authors show how surveys have reflected societal anxieties about adolescent development, teen sex and promiscuity, and AIDS, and have been employed in efforts to preserve marriage and to control women's sexuality." "Kiss and Tell is an important examination of the role of social science in shaping American sexual patterns. Revealing how surveys of sexual behavior help create the issues they purport merely to describe, it reminds us how malleable and imperfect our knowledge of sexual behavior is."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [231-260) and index.".
- catalog description "TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Asking questions about sex -- In urgent need of the facts -- Sex in the service of the conjugal bond -- Sex before marriage -- Adolescent fertility -- Coupling and uncoupling -- Excising the experts -- Gay men and AIDS -- Politics and sex surveys -- The story continues -- Reforming sex research.".
- catalog extent "ix, 270 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Kiss and tell.".
- catalog identifier "0674505352 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Kiss and tell.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Kiss and tell.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "306.7/0973/0904 21".
- catalog subject "HQ18.U5 E75 1999".
- catalog subject "Sex customs United States.".
- catalog subject "Sexology United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Sexual behavior surveys United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Asking questions about sex -- In urgent need of the facts -- Sex in the service of the conjugal bond -- Sex before marriage -- Adolescent fertility -- Coupling and uncoupling -- Excising the experts -- Gay men and AIDS -- Politics and sex surveys -- The story continues -- Reforming sex research.".
- catalog title "Kiss and tell : surveying sex in the twentieth century / Julia A. Ericksen with Sally A. Steffen.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".