Latina girls and sexual identity
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Garcia, Lorena
- Publish Year
- 2012
- Shelfmark
- VS 3 2012 - B
- Thesaurus
- seksualiteit, latina's, seksisme, etniciteit, LHBT
- Description
- While 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†suggest. In this book the author 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 experience with sexism, racism, homophobia and socioeconomic marginality. That informs how they engage and begin to rework their meanings of gender and sexuality.