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This rich collection of essays presents a new vision of adolescent sexuality shaped by a variety of social factors: race and ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, physical ability, and cultural messages propagated in films, books, and within families. The contributors consider the full range of cultural influences that form a teenager's sexual identity and argue that education must include more than its current overriding message of denial hinged on warnings of HIV and AIDS infection and teenage pregnancy. Examining the sexual experiences, feelings, and development of Asians, Latinos, African Americans, gay man and lesbians, and disabled women, this book provides a new understanding of adolescent sexuality that goes beyond the biological approach all too often simplified as "surging hormones." Janice M. Irvine is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts and author of "Disorders of Desire: Sex and Gender in Modern American Sexology" (Temple).

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Sexual Cultures and the Construction of Adolescent Identities
• Author: Janice M. Irvine
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9781566391368
• ISBN: 1566391369
• ID: 05081967
• Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Weight: 449 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. April 1994

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