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Adolescent Girls’ Sexual Empowerment: Two Feminists Explore the Concept
Sharon Lamb,Zoë D. Peterson +1 more
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Lamb et al. as mentioned in this paper discuss their disagreements and attempt to find some common ground in their viewpoints on girls' sexuality, finding that adequate sexuality education and media literacy education are vital to optimizing adolescent girls' sexual empowerment.Abstract:
Although all feminists tend to value empowered female sexuality, feminists often disagree, sometimes heatedly so, about the definition of and path to empowered sexuality among adolescent girls. In this theoretical paper, two feminists, who have previously expressed differing perspectives regarding adolescent girls’ sexual empowerment (Lamb 2010a, b; Peterson 2010), discuss their disagreements and attempt to find some common ground in their viewpoints on girls’ sexuality. A critical question related to sexual empowerment is whether empowerment includes a subjective sense of efficacy, desire, and pleasure. In other words, are girls sexually empowered if they feel that they are empowered? The authors identify three themes that make answering this question particularly challenging—age differences, exposure to sexualized media, and the pressure to please a partner. Despite these challenges, the authors identify several points of consensus, including agreeing that adequate sexuality education and media literacy education are vital to optimizing adolescent girls’ sexual empowerment.read more
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Female Adolescents, Sexual Empowerment and Desire: A Missing Discourse of Gender Inequity
TL;DR: In this paper, a response to Lamb and Peterson's critique of adolescent women's healthy sexuality is presented, with a focus on the role of sexual empowerment in adolescent girls' healthy sexuality.
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Economic Impacts of Child Marriage: A Review of the Literature
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that child marriage is a widespread violation of human rights and is an impediment to social and economic development, and it is rooted in gender inequality.
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In the eye of the beholder: Thin-ideal media affects some, but not most, viewers in a meta-analytic review of body dissatisfaction in women and men.
TL;DR: The authors examined the effects of thin-ideal media ideals on men and women in experimental, correlational, and longitudinal studies and concluded that media effects are generally minimal and limited to those with preexisting body dissatisfaction.
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Selfies, Image and the Re-making of the Body
TL;DR: In this paper, the relationality between women's bodies and selfies on NSFW (Not Safe For Work) tumblr blogs is explored, and the authors consider the way selfie practices engage with normative, ageist and sexist assumptions of the wider culture in order to understand how specific ways of looking become possible.
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Media, Empowerment and the ‘Sexualization of Culture’ Debates
TL;DR: In this article, a dialogue between media and communications research and more psychologically oriented scholarship is proposed to promote the need to rethink conceptualizations of the media and processes of media influence, and raise critical questions about the utility of the notion of sexual empowerment, given its individualistic framing, the developmentalism implicit in its use, and the difficulties in identifying it in cultures in which "empowerment" is used to sell everything from liquid detergents to breast augmentation surgery.
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Psychological empowerment: Issues and illustrations
TL;DR: The thesis of this paper is that the development of a universal and global measure of psychological empowerment may not be a feasible or appropriate goal.
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Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality
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Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire.
TL;DR: In this article, 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.
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Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality
John H. Gagnon,William Simon +1 more
TL;DR: Gagnon and Simon as mentioned in this paper argue that sexual activities, of all kinds, may be understood as the outcome of a complex psychosocial process of development and trace the ways in which sexuality is learned and fitted into particular moments in the lifecycle and in different modes of behavior.
Fertility, family planning, and reproductive health of U.S. Women: Data from the 2002 national survey of family growth
TL;DR: National estimates of fertility, family planning, and reproductive health indicators among females 15-44 years of age in the United States in 2002 from Cycle 6 of the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG).