Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself : Latina Girls and Sexual Identity / Lorena Garcia.
2012
HQ798 .G37 2012
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Title
Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself : Latina Girls and Sexual Identity / Lorena Garcia.
Author
Garcia, Lorena, author.
ISBN
9780814733189
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
10.18574/nyu/9780814733189.001.0001 doi
Call Number
HQ798 .G37 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
155.2
Summary
Exploring young Latina youth's sexual agency, education, and expressionWhile 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.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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Intersections ; ; 14
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print 9780814733165
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. 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
Appendix A: Profile of Research Participants
Appendix B: Methodological Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. 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
Appendix A: Profile of Research Participants
Appendix B: Methodological Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author