...The discussion of sex in American culture changed between World War II and the mid-1960s. Historians and observers at the time documented intensified attention to sexual issues in civic culture as sexuality became viewed as central to personal identity, as knowable, and as accessible to measurement...

...This book has tracked changes in writing practice over a tumultuous period in Germany's history by examining four separate, yet interlocking, aspects of its civic culture. All four of these concepts denote crucial elements in the seamless web of cognitive and social practices undergirding civil...