TY - BOOK ID - 85734869 TI - Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself : Latina Girls and Sexual Identity PY - 2012 SN - 0814733182 0814733166 0814733174 PB - New York, NY : New York University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sex instruction for girls KW - Gender identity KW - Self-perception in adolescence KW - Hispanic American teenage girls KW - Teenage girls, Hispanic American KW - Teenage girls KW - Self-perception in teenagers KW - Adolescent psychology KW - Girls KW - Psychology. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85734869 AB - 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. ER -