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'''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>
'''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>





Revision as of 19:42, 25 July 2011

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

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

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

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


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.

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