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Episode 1 - What a Young Girl Ought to Know
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On this episode, we delve into What a Young Girl Ought to Know, by Dr. Mary Wood-Allen (1897), a "purity education" book that was purported to tell children about sex (but really didn't). This podcast is marked explicit because I occasionally use four-letter words.
If you are unable to listen to the podcast, a transcript is available: https://drive.google.com/open?id=17Vg7-7XTwkVdEs-2FFj1RwOFul0w2PgW
Source material for this episode:
Pierce, J. (2011). What Young Readers Ought to Know: The Successful Selling of Sexual Health Texts in the Early Twentieth Century. Book History, 14, 110-136. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2011.0009
Sethna, C. (2010). Animal sex: purity education and the abstinence agenda. Sex Education, 10(3), 267-279. DOI: 10.1080/14681811.2010.491636
Wood-Allen, M. (1897). What a Young Girl Ought to Know. London, England: Vir Publishing. Link to a copy at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/whatayounggirlo00allegoog
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