Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself Latina Girls and Sexual Identity

Name: Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself Latina Girls and Sexual Identity
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ISBN: 9780814733172

ISBN-10: 0814733174

ISBN-13: 9780814733172

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lorena Garcia

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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…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 10/22/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Introduction: Studying the "Other" Girls



"She's Old School Like That": Mother and Daughter Sex Talks



The Sexual (Mis)Education of Latina Girls



"Handlin' Your Business": Sexual Respectability and Peers



Playing Lilï¿½ Games: Partners and Safe-Sex Strategies



Conclusion



Profile of Research Participants



Methodological Notes


Notes


Bibliography


Index


About the Author