Adolescent Sexuality: A Historical Handbook and Guide

Covering major issues in adolescent sexuality in the United States from colonial times to the present, this work provides an account of how adults, from policymakers to police and parents, have attempted to intervene in the sexual lives of adolescents, and how adolescent sexuality has been and continues to be a subject of social concern and control.

This balanced, nuanced, and data—grounded view of the past and present of adolescent sexuality provides readers with a store of valuable and rel...