1966 · Chicago, Illinois
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 (truncated)