A Story About You" -- 1960s Booklet for Pre-Teens on Puberty, Human Reproduction, Sex Education

Chicago, Illinois, 1966. A 1960s-era educational booklet on puberty and reproduction, published for older children and pre-teens by the American Medical Association. Divided into seven chapters, it covers the following topics: how bodies change and grow during childhood and adolescence; how human reproduction works at a biological level; how babies grow and develop; gender; growing and learning; and how adolescence works. Note the chapter "Boy or Girl?" which reinforces society's gender binary based on sex. A valuable look into the kind of information made available to children born in the 1950s and 1960s from their schools, medical providers, and public health officials. Single vol. (9" by 6"), pp. 43, [3], in original illus. orange wrps. with image of children going to school on front. (Inventory #: 24000298)