Subjectivity, intimacy, and the empowerment paradigm of adolescent sexuality: The unexplored room

Feminist Studies

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 133-160

  Schalet, Amy ^a  

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References (21)

1. Janice M. Irvine, Talk about Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002); Diane di Mauro and Carole Joffe, "The Religious Right and the Reshaping of Sexual Policy: An Examination of Reproductive Rights and Sexuality Education, " Sexuality Research and Social Policy: A Journal of the National Sexuality Resource Center 4, no. 1 (2007).
2. See, John Santelli et al., "Abstinence and Abstinence-Only Education: A Review of U. S. Policies and Programs, "Journal of Adolescent Health 38 (2006):72-81.
3. B. Ruby Rich, "Feminism and Sexuality in the 1980s, " Feminist Studies 12 (Fall 1986) : 558.
4. Constance Nathanson, Dangerous Passage: The Social Control of Sexuality in Women's Adolescence (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991), 222.
5. Kristin Luker, Taking Chances: Abortion and the Decision Not to Contracept (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975).
6. Carole S. Vance, "Pleasure and Danger: Toward a Politics of Sexuality, " in Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, ed. Carole S. Vance (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984).
7. Jessica Benjamin, The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination (New York: Pantheon Books, 1988).
8. My term "love deficit" is a play on Arlie Russell Hochschild's concept of the "care deficit, " in "The Culture of Politics: Traditional, Postmodern, Cold-Modern, and Warm-Modern Ideals of Care, " Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State, and Society 2, no. 3 (1995):332.
9. Michelle Fine, "Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire, " Harvard Educational Review 58, no. 1 (1988).
10. Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Berkeley, Calif.: Crossing Press, 1984); Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan, Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992).
11. Adrienne Rich, "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence, " in Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, ed. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983).
12. Lawrence B. Finer, "Trends in Premarital Sex in the United States, 1954-2003, " Public Health Reports 122, no. 1 (2007):73-78.
13. This expression comes from Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (New York: Basic Books, 1992).
14. See Sharon Home and Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck, "The Female Sexual Subjectivity Inventory: Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Inventory for Late Adolescents and Emerging Adults, " Psychology of Women Quarterly 30, no. 2 (2006):125-38.
15. Susheela Singh and Jacqueline E. Darroch, "Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing: Levels and Trends in Developed Countries, " 14-23, and Christine Panchaud et al., "Sexually Transmitted Diseases among Adolescents in Developed Countries, " 24-32, 45, both in Family Planning Perspectives 32, no. 1 (2000).
16. This is changing. A number of recent research projects have been able to explore boys' experiences with greater ease and depict them with more complexity. See, for instance, Peggy C. Giordano, Monica A. Longmore, and Wendy D. Manning, "Gender and the Meanings of Adolescent Romantic Relationships: A Focus on Boys, " American Sociological Review 71, no. 2 (2006) : Niobe Way and Judy Y. Chu, eds., Adolescent Boys: Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood (New York: New York University Press, 2004).
17. See, for instance, Rickie Solinger, Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America (New York: New York University Press, 2007); Sheila Parker et al., "Body Image and Weight Concerns among African American and White Adolescent Females: Differences That Make a Difference, " Human Organization: Society for Applied Anthropology 54 (Summer 1995) : 103-14.
18. For an exploration of adult African American women's experience with sexuality, see Tricia Rose, Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk about Sexuality and Intimacy (New York: Picador, 2003). For an exploration of sexuality among college-educated Chicanas, see Aída Hurtado, ed., Voicing Chicana Feminisms: Young Women Speak Out on Sexuality and Identity (New York: New York University Press, 2003).
19. See also Leslie Catherine Bell, "Subjects of Desire, Objects of Affection: Twentysomething Women and the Contradictions of Sexuality" (Ph. D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2005).
20. Since 2006, abstinence-only policies have targeted "adolescents and/or young adults within the 12-through 29-year-old range, " according to Cynthia Dailard, "New Bush Administration Policy Promotes Abstinence until Marriage among People in Their 20s, " Guttmacher Policy Review 9, no. 4 (2006).
21. J. C. Abma et al., "Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing, 2002, " in Vital and Health Statistics, series 23, Data from the National Survey on Family Growth, no. 24, ed. Gail V. Johnson (Hyattsville, Md.: U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 2004).