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Girls of Color, Sexuality, and Sex Education
Sharon Lamb, Roberts, Tangela, Plocha, Aleksandra
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Description for Girls of Color, Sexuality, and Sex Education
Hardcover. Num Pages: 108 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JMC; JMH; JMU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 218 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
This book takes a close look at how girls of color think, talk, and learn about sex and sexual ethics, how they navigate their developing sexuality through cultural stereotypes about sex and body image, and how they negotiate their sexual learning within a co-ed sex education classroom. While girls of color are often pictured as at risk or engaged in risky behavior, the analyses of focus groups and classroom discussions, show not only girls’ vulnerabilities but their strengths as they work with integrating diverse identities, media messages, school policy and history into their understanding of the sexual world they are ... Read more
This book takes a close look at how girls of color think, talk, and learn about sex and sexual ethics, how they navigate their developing sexuality through cultural stereotypes about sex and body image, and how they negotiate their sexual learning within a co-ed sex education classroom. While girls of color are often pictured as at risk or engaged in risky behavior, the analyses of focus groups and classroom discussions, show not only girls’ vulnerabilities but their strengths as they work with integrating diverse identities, media messages, school policy and history into their understanding of the sexual world they are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137601537
SKU
V9781137601537
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99-15
About Sharon Lamb, Roberts, Tangela, Plocha, Aleksandra
Sharon Lamb is Professor of Counseling Psychology at University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Tangela Roberts is a doctoral candidate in the Counseling and School Psychology PhD program at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA. Aleksandra Plocha is a doctoral candidate in the Counseling and School Psychology PhD program at the University of Massachusetts Boston, USA.
Reviews for Girls of Color, Sexuality, and Sex Education
“Girls of Color, Sexuality, and Sex Education successfully accomplishes at least 4 things. With regard to content, it summarizes and critiques how girls of color (especially Black girls) think, talk, and learn about sexuality, by reviewing the extant literature on body image, respect, the sex education classroom, and media through a feminist lens. … Overall, this volume is a welcome ... Read more