The UK edition of The Little Red Schoolbook : a paper tiger reflects
2011; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 12; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/14681811.2011.627730
ISSN1472-0825
Autores Tópico(s)Foucault, Power, and Ethics
ResumoAbstract This paper concerns The Little Red Schoolbook, an English translation of the Danish book Den lille røde bog fur skoleelever. After the book's publication in the UK, opponents were successful in pressing for its publisher's prosecution. The ensuing trial led to its withdrawal and its bowdlerisation. It is argued that the work played some part in changing social and sexual mores and sex education practice in the UK, being, in effect, the Urtext of the ‘harm reduction approach’. Keywords: historyUKharm reduction Acknowledgements The author is grateful to the Albert Sloman Library and to the Danmarks Paedagogiske Bibliotek. Notes 1. First broadcast on BBC Radio Four, 18 June 2008 and SBS TV, 2 November 2007, respectively. 2. Black Dwarf was a radical 1960s magazine. The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman [1862–1946] was first published in 1889; the connotation intended is something innocuous/childish. 3. First published: 24 July 1971. 4. This claim originated in the work of Danish sociologist Berl Kutchinsky [1935–1995]. For further discussion, see President's Commission (Citation1970), US Department of Justice (Citation1986) and Kutchinsky (Citation1991). 5. Now known as Mediawatch-UK (Nelson Citation2005). 6. Unsurprisingly, evangelical Christians in Denmark were amongst the first to issue counterblasts to the original. See Facius, Noer, and Stage (Citation1971), a translation from Danish, funded by the mercurial campaigner Ross McWhirter [1925–1975]. 7. The self-styled Children's Angry Brigade later threatened to issue free copies of the first edition in schools (Children's Angry Brigade Citation1972). This claim was, it seems, only adolescent bravado, although some ‘bootleg’ copies did circulate (Teachers World Citation1971). On the ‘actual’ Angry Brigade, a chaotic, haphazard and largely ineffectual 1970s terrorist group, see Carr (Citation1975) and Christie (Citation2004).
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