A dissident voice in New Zealand wartime sex education.
Sex education in wartime New Zealand focused primarily on adults and was concerned with community stability in aberrant times. In 1943 Dr. Clara Lee's bold move to ask a group of New Zealand women candidly about their sexual experiences caused her dismissal as lecturer in sex hygiene to military women. This encounter provides an important counter discourse to the dominantly held contemporary sex education framework of marital love and premarital chastity.
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Claire
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History Department, University of Auckland.
D005260:Female; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008393:Marriage / Q000266:history; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000266:history*; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D009520:New Zealand; D012736:Sex Education / Q000266:history*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D047789:World War II