The religious right and the reshaping of sexual policy: Reproductive rights and sexuality education during the bush years

Moral Panics, Sex Panics: Fear and the Fight over Sexual Rights

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 47-103

  DiMauro, Diane ^a,b,c   Joffe, Carole ^d  

^a Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health ^*  (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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