Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire

1988/04/01 by Michelle Fine · 5 citations
Health Professions · Social Sciences · Psychology · #Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health #Gender Roles and Identity Studies #LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy

paper · doi:10.17763/haer.58.1.u0468k1v2n2n8242

Abstract

Michelle Fine argues that the anti-sex rhetoric surrounding sex education and school-based health clinics does little to enhance the development of sexual responsibility and subjectivity in adolescents. Despite substantial evidence on the success of both school-based health clinics and access to sexuality information, the majority of public schools do not sanction or provide such information. As a result, female students, particularly low-income ones, suffer most from the inadequacies of present sex education policies. Current practices and language lead to increased experiences of victimization, teenage pregnancy, and increased dropout rates,and consequently,

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