SEX AND SOCIETY IN SWEDEN

ISBN-10: 0-06-090253-1
Writers: Birgitta Linnér in collaboration with Richard J. Litell
Τitle: Sex and Society in Sweden
Preface: Lester A. Kirkendall
Introduction: Birgitta Linnér
Language: English
Edition: First Harper Colophon Edition
Place of Publication: New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London
Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers
Year of Publication: 1972
Format: 132x202mm
Pages: xix+225
Illustrations: 32 black and white plates by Lennart Nilsson, and sketches by Barbro Söderstam & Bertilson
Cover Design: Roger Zimmerman
Binding: Paperback in duotone covers
Weight: 235gr.
Entry No: 2009035
Date of Entry: 26th May 2009

BOOK REVIEWS

“Sex and Society in Sweden gives American readers an opportunity to look at the Swedish way of handling sex problems and teaching about sex in the schools... [The author] writes as a specialist and as a strong partisan of social change, but also as a woman deeply concerned with human relationships and adult responsibilities for children.”

Margaret Mead, Redbook

“This is an authoritative discussion by a lawyer and family life counselor of contemporary Swedish efforts to come to terms with human sexuality and to educate youth about it… Because it is a book that is open, honest, and reliable regarding the real situation in Sweden, it should prove of unusual value and interest to parents and educators everywhere.”

SIECUS Newsletter

“With sex-education programs bursting out all over the United States, this book describing Sweden's 20-year-old state program on sex education is an important guide for parents, teachers, ministers, politicians, and physicians. It is both a ‘how to’ and a ‘what-not-to-do’ book, covering Sweden's successes and failures.”

John C. Devlin, New York Times

“Sex and Society in Sweden presents a vision, a blueprint, and a reality… The books merits serious attention by anyone who, like Mrs. Linnér, dreams of a world in which men and women share life to the full, and in which they do not have to cross a field that is mined with guilt, unwanted pregnancies, abortions, and venereal disease in order to reach the garden of Eden.”

George Krupp, Saturday Review