Judy Blume: Difference between revisions

====Date: [[:Category:1951 - 1975|1951 - 1975]] [[:Category:1975 - 1984|1975 - 1984]] [[:Category:|Category:]]====

====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]] [[:Category:|Category:]] [[:Category:|{location3}]]====

====Subject: [[:Category:Explicit Sexuality|Explicit Sexuality]] [[:Category:|Category:]] [[:Category:|Category:]]====

====Medium: [[:Category:Literature|Literature]] [[:Category:|Category:]] [[:Category:|Category:]]====

'''Description of Artwork:''' Judy Blume is a reknown adolescent book writer.  Her first controversial novel, [[Are you there, God" It's Me, Margaret]] (1970), is a reflection by a 12-year-old girl on subjects like large breasts and menstruation.  Her novel "Deenie" (1973) includes female masturbation, "Blubber" (1974)has a bullying heroine and "Forever" (1975) includes adolescent sexual intercourse.  <P>

'''The Incident:''' "Are you there..." was banned by Blume's children's elementary school principal.  Around the country, critics called her work, "anti-Christian and against parental and school authority."  In 1983, schools in Leesburg, Florida and Peoria, Illinois, removed her books from their school libraries. <P>

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