NDLI: Female Adolescents, Sexual Empowerment and Desire: A Missing Discourse of Gender Inequity

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Tolman, Deborah L.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	In this commentary, I offer a response to Lamb & Peterson (2011). I base these comments on the feminist scholarship on adolescent girls’ healthy sexuality that Lamb (2010a) critiqued in the first of this series. I address and redress several of her concerns by providing the context and history of my own research and recovering the meanings of desire, pleasure and subjectivity as they appeared in this body of work. I then engage Lamb and Peterson’s points of consensus about the role of sexual empowerment in adolescent girls’ healthy sexuality by 1) positioning sexualization as more than a context; 2) identifying a missing discourse of gender inequity as a central issue in their discussion; and 3) explaining how the use of theory and interpretation in feminist research methods is necessary for and distinct from a surface reading of narratives of lived experience. Finally, I will provide examples of some alternative paths for supporting healthy adolescent women’s sexuality that extend beyond school-based sex education and media literacy into alternative engagements with girls through technology, media activism and participatory practices.
Starting Page	746
Ending Page	757
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	03600025
Journal	Sex Roles
Volume Number	66
Issue Number	11-12
e-ISSN	15732762
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2012-02-08
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Feminism Empowerment Adolescent girls Sexuality Research methods Medicine/Public Health Gender Studies Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Gender Studies Developmental and Educational Psychology Social Psychology

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