Reviews for Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley enVisionMATH

The average rating for Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley enVisionMATH based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2021-01-12 00:00:00 M S Of the three books I've read on this topic recently, this was the best: more readable than Bad Girls and with a better scope than either Bad Girls or Trials of Nina McCall. Odem looks at how moral crusaders, particularly women's groups, pushed to raise the age of consent in the U.S. to sixteen, or better yet, eighteen, believing this would protect girls from predatory men (one rape-apologist objection was that it was the girls who were predators: a fourteen-year-old could seduce a man, cry rape and blackmail him!). For many working-class families, the law became a tool for restraining girls who were showing too much independence. For the legal system it became more about punishing non-virgin girls than protecting them (the boy got a slap on the wrist, the girl went to detention). And even for the Progressive reformers, it was about controlling girls' lives though not so oppressively. The girls themselves ranged from victims of abuse and rape to girls who just wanted to have fun, and did. A very good job capturing how different sides reacted to these issues.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-09-15 00:00:00 Chris Cozens Ok.