In defense of danger: Sex, schools and the politics of discourse

Miller, Sarah

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“…Sarah Miller (2013) offers an account of the media coverage of the first school-supported student production of Eve Ensler’s play, The Vagina Monologues . She presents and examines the arguments made by those voicing support or opposition.…”

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More about sexualities activisms please, we need it!

Tiefer

2018

Sexualities

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What if what is missing is not information and understanding of all that is wrong, but rather a sense that it is worth trying to do something about it? (Peters, 2005: 45) The problem I'm going out on a limb, here, but I think there is a void in Sexualities. Sexuality scholarship is largely about the problems that sexual behaviors, attitudes, discourses, politics, and identities cause for individuals and society. The articles and special issues in Sexualities approach this scholarship with passion and innovation. Yet, although sexuality scholars, including many who write in Sexualities, participate in various types of transformational and advocacy activities to remedy society's problems with sexualities, little is written about activism and advocacy how-to, why and what-for in the journal. Scholars have ceded this terrain to editorials, newsletters, blogs, alternative media or social media and may even themselves write such material, but is there still a need for such splitting? Maybe it's time to examine the chasm between activists and the academics who research and write about social issues and movements. In our sexuality research and theory we are interested in revisiting, reframing and disrupting traditions of

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Section: A Solutionmentioning

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Tiefer

2018

Sexualities

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“…On the other hand, to assume that young women who participate in FWB relationships are displaying sexual agency is far too simplistic. For emerging adults in the United States, the level of stigma attached to young women who are open about their sexuality and sexual preferences, and the discourse of ''risk'' associated with unfettered female sexuality, continue to play an important role in understanding sexual agency (Miller 2013).…”

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“…Laws and policies limiting access to reproductive health care operate in tandem with restricted information to impede young women's ability to explore and understand their own desires. As a result, discourses of adolescent sexuality are bounded by ''(im)morality, protection, or victimization'' (McClelland and Fine 2008, p. 84;Miller 2013), rather than sexual agency.…”

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Third Wave Feminism and Emerging Adult Sexuality: Friends with Benefits Relationships

Williams

Jovanovic

2014

Sexuality & Culture

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Using U.S. third wave feminism as the cultural backdrop, this study examines emerging adults' participation in heterosexual ''friends with benefts'' (FWB) relationships. We investigate both the role of gender and feminism in FWB relationships at a United States college, and ask whether identifcation with feminist ideology impacts students' motivations and assessments of their relationships. Through the use of an anonymous survey, our research explores whether and how young women and men engage in FWB relationships, the degree to which they fnd such relationships fulflling, and the presence of social stigma or acceptance related to this sexual behavior. While we fnd some gender differences in motives for and satisfaction with FWB relationships, we also suggest that the association between sexual agency and participation in a friends with benefts relationship is complicated and requires further research and exploration.

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“…Talk about girls' sexuality is often mediated through discourses of danger (Fine, 1988;Fine and McClelland, 2006;Miller, 2013), which emphasize the physical, emotional, and moral risks of sexual behavior while denying girls' sexual agency (Tolman, 2002;Fine and McClelland, 2007). While this talk serves to regulate all girls' sexuality, crosscutting discourses about race, class, and age portray some girls as more ''at risk'' than others (Bettie, 2003;Garcia, 2012;Harris, 2004;Mann, 2013;Wilkins, 2004bWilkins, , 2008.…”

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Secure girls: Class, sexuality, and self-esteem

Wilkins

Miller

2017

Sexualities

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Public discourse is replete with talk about the fragility of young women's self-esteem, linking poor self-concept to a range of social problems associated with girlhood. We know little about the impact of these ideas on young women. In this article, we examine interviews with 66 girls, aged 14-22, to understand how they talk about the link between self-esteem and sexual expression in everyday life. We find that girls' talk about selfesteem uses classed meanings that unintentionally reinforce and extend the role of sexuality in girls' status hierarchies, benefitting those with more class resources, while policing all girls' abilities to claim sexual agency.

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In defense of danger: Sex, schools and the politics of discourse

Cited by 3 publications

References 26 publications

More about sexualities activisms please, we need it!

More about sexualities activisms please, we need it!

Third Wave Feminism and Emerging Adult Sexuality: Friends with Benefits Relationships

Secure girls: Class, sexuality, and self-esteem

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