Sex-education
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- University faculty and students researching educational history, gender history, or public health history
- Social science researchers following the evolution of sex-education ideas who need primary historical sources
- Upper-level students willing to read old public-domain works with a historical eye
- Researchers collecting materials on education policy and curriculum history
Not a good fit for
- Parents seeking a practical guide to contemporary adolescent sex education
- General readers seeking modern medical or mental-health professional advice
- Casual readers impatient with century-old English prose and period vocabulary
Reading tips
- Begin with the table of contents and preface to grasp the author's framing, then read by theme rather than page by page.
- While reading, note terms and claims marked by their era and compare them with contemporary sex-education discourse.
- Can be read alongside courses in educational history or gender studies, using the book as discussion material rather than a source of conclusions.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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About the author
Maurice A. Bigelow (1872–1955) was an American educator and writer. The library holds only one of his works, Sex-education. In this field he addressed the transmission of sexual knowledge and teaching methods for young people, writing for general readers and educators and seeking to discuss a topic still sensitive at the time in clear, careful language. The existing profile also notes that he studied library economy and wrote works on the subject, showing interests spanning educational practice and the organization and use of knowledge resources. Overall, Bigelow's writings tend toward popular education and practical guidance and hold some significance as sex education entered public discussion. Because public information is limited, his detailed life, positions, and scholarly background cannot be described at length; readers may turn to Sex-education for his basic views and writing style.
