Woodslane | Book - 9780814733165

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ISBN-13: 9780814733165
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Lorena Garcia
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Local release date: 21/11/2012
Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 153.00mm) 240 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Popular psychology [VSP]

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Google Preview: Exploring young Latina youth's sexual agency, education, and expression While Latina girls have high teen birth rates and are at increasing risk for contracting sexually transmitted infections, their sexual lives are much more complex than the negative stereotypes of them as "helpless" or "risky" (or worse) suggest. In Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself, Lorena Garcia examines how Latina girls negotiate their emerging sexual identities and attempt to create positive sexual experiences for themselves. Through a focus on their sexual agency, Garcia demonstrates that Latina girls' experiences with sexism, racism, homophobia and socioeconomic marginality inform how they engage and begin to rework their meanings and processes of gender and sexuality, emphasizing how Latina youth themselves understand their sexuality, particularly how they conceptualize and approach sexual safety and pleasure. At a time of controversy over the appropriate role of sex education in schools, Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself, provides a rare look and an important understanding of the sexual lives of a traditionally marginalized group.; Introduction: Studying the "Other" Girls 2. She's Old School Like That: Mother and Daughter Sex Talks 3. The Sexual (Mis)Education of Latina Girls 4. Handlin' Your Business: Sexual Respectability and Peers 5. Playing Lil' Games: Partners and Safe-Sex Strategies 6. Conclusion; Google Preview content