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Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education, by David Gudelunas. New Brunswick, NJ. Transaction Publishers, 2008. 225pp. $34.95 cloth. ISBN: 9781412806886.
Confidential to America aims to chronicle the role of the newspaper advice column as a source of sexual education information over the past century. Gudelunas focuses primarily on the dominant voices in this dialogue between American readers and the writers mediating the discussion. Namely, he provides a wealth of information on Beatrice Fairfax, Dorothy Dix, Ann Landers, and Abigail Van...