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====Date: [[:Category: | ====Date: [[:Category:1970|1970]]==== | ||
====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America | ====Region: [[:Category:North America|North America]]==== | ||
====Subject: [[:Category:Explicit Sexuality|Explicit Sexuality | ====Subject: [[:Category:Explicit Sexuality|Explicit Sexuality]]==== | ||
====Medium: [[:Category:Literature|Literature | ====Medium: [[:Category:Literature|Literature]]==== | ||
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'''Description of Artwork:''' Judy Blume is a reknown adolescent book writer. Her first controversial novel, [[Are you there, God | '''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:''' | '''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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Revision as of 19:53, 25 July 2011
Date: 1970
Region: North America
Subject: Explicit Sexuality
Medium: Literature
Artist: Judy Blume
Confronting Bodies: Literary critics, schools and libraries across the United States
Dates of Action: 1970-present
Location: United States
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.
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.
Results of Incident: The ACLU has challenged much of the censorship against Blume's books. Many of her titles are still on the American Library Association's banned books list.
Source: Censorship, A World Encyclopedia, ed. D. Jones [[Category:1970]
