TY - BOOK AU - Garcia,Lorena TI - Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity T2 - Intersections SN - 9780814733165 AV - HQ798 .G37 2012 U1 - 155.2 PY - 2012///] CY - New York, NY : PB - New York University Press, KW - Gender identity KW - United States KW - Hispanic American teenage girls KW - Psychology KW - Hispanic American women KW - Self-perception in adolescence KW - Sex instruction for girls KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814733189.001.0001 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814733189 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814733189/original ER -