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

01 Apr 1988-Harvard Educational Review (Harvard Education Publishing Group)-Vol. 58, Iss: 1, pp 29-54
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.
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, ". . . combine to exacerbate the vulnerability of young women whom schools, and the critics of sex education and school-based health clinics, claim to protect." The author combines a thorough review of the literature with her research in public schools to make a compelling argument for "sexuality education" that fosters not only the full developmen...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors offer objectification theory as a framework for understanding the experiential consequences of being female in a culture that sexually objectifies the female body, and propose a framework to understand the effects of objectification on women.
Abstract: This article offers objectification theory as a framework for understanding the experiential consequences of being female in a culture that sexually objectifies the female body. Objectification the...

4,003 citations


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  • ...…becomes the target ofsexual advances, harassment (American Association of University Women, 1993), and sexual abuse (Koss & 194 FREDRICKSON AND ROBERTS Harvey, 1987), and is increasingly guarded and restricted by parents (Eccles, Jacobs, & Harold, 1990), as well as teachers (Fine, 1988)....

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  • ...Harvey, 1987), and is increasingly guarded and restricted by parents (Eccles, Jacobs, & Harold, 1990), as well as teachers (Fine, 1988)....

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TL;DR: Focus group methodology is introduced, ways of conducting such groups are explored and what this technique of data collection can offer researchers in general and medical sociologists in particular are examined.
Abstract: What are focus groups? How are they distinct from ordinary group discussions and what use are they anyway? This article introduces focus group methodology, explores ways of conducting such groups and examines what this technique of data collection can offer researchers in general and medical sociologists in particular. It concentrates on the one feature which inevitably distinguishes focus groups from one-to-one interviews or questionnaires – namely the interaction between research participants - and argues for the overt exploration and exploitation of such interaction in the research process.

3,872 citations


Cites background from "Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescen..."

  • ...Tbeir rejection of non-penetrative sex drew attention botb to tbe style and context of sucb safer sex advice and to wbat Fine calls 'tbe missing discourse of desire' (Fine 1988)....

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TL;DR: Two experiments manipulated self-objectification by having participants try on a swimsuit or a sweater and found that self- objectification increased body shame, which in turn predicted restrained eating and diminished math performance for women only.
Abstract: Objectification theory (B. L. Fredrickson & T. Roberts, 1997) posits that American culture socializes women to adopt observers' perspectives on their physical selves. This self-objectification is hypothesized to (a) produce body shame, which in turn leads to restrained eating, and (b) consume attentional resources, which is manifested in diminished mental performance. Two experiments manipulated self-objectification by having participants try on a swimsuit or a sweater. Experiment 1 tested 72 women and found that self-objectification increased body shame, which in turn predicted restrained eating. Experiment 2 tested 42 women and 40 men and found that these effects on body shame and restrained eating replicated for women only. Additionally, self-objectification diminished math performance for women only. Discussion centers on the causes and consequences of objectifying women's bodies.

1,032 citations

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TL;DR: The authors argues for attending to the perspectives of those most directly affected by, but least often consulted about, educational policy and practice: students, arguing that the argument for authorizing student perspectives runs counter to U.S. reform efforts, which have been based on adults' ideas about the conceptualization and practice of education.
Abstract: This article argues for attending to the perspectives of those most directly affected by, but least often consulted about, educational policy and practice: students. The argument for authorizing student perspectives runs counter to U.S. reform efforts, which have been based on adults’ ideas about the conceptualization and practice of education. This article outlines and critiques a variety of recent attempts to listen to students, including constructivist and critical pedagogies, postmodern and poststructural feminisms, educational researchers’ and social critics’ work, and recent developments in the medical and legal realms, almost all of which continue to unfold within and reinforce adults’ frames of reference. This discussion contextualizes what the author argues are the twin challenges of authorizing student perspectives: a change in mindset and changes in the structures in educational relationships and institutions.

938 citations

Book
12 Dec 1994
TL;DR: In this article, a discussion of a politics of resistance for today can be found over issues of identity, representation, culture and schooling, and it will be required reading for students of radical pedagogy, sociology and political science.
Abstract: This book is a principled, accessible and highly stimulating discussion of a politics of resistance for today. Ranging widely over issues of identity, representation, culture and schooling, it will be required reading for students of radical pedagogy, sociology and political science.

633 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used ethnographic techniques to describe the factors that led dropout students to leave school, through the eyes and words of actual dropout participants and their families.
Abstract: Statistics on school experiences of dropouts provide one sort of picture of the problem. In this article Michelle Fine provides another. Using ethnographic techniques, she describes through the eyes and words of actual dropouts the factors that led them to leave school.

357 citations

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01 Jan 1986
TL;DR: In this article, Nel Noddings explores how this virtue might be moved from the periphery to the center of educational work, and argues that such a reorientation would not undermine, but rather enhance, the quality and depth of teaching, learning, and research.
Abstract: Viewing fidelity from the perspective of an ethic of caring, Nel Noddings explores how this virtue might be moved from the periphery to the center of educational work. She argues that such a reorientation would not undermine, but rather enhance, the quality and depth of teaching, learning, and research. She urges, further, that fidelity to persons be taken as the proper measure and guide for the implementation of educational reform.

328 citations


"Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescen..." refers background in this paper

  • ..." How can defi­ nition occur without discussion, exchange, conversation, or critique unless a sub­ text of silencing prevails (Greene, 1986; Noddings, 1986)?...

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TL;DR: Tiresias, the blind seer who had enjoyed the uncommon fortune of having lived seven years as a woman as mentioned in this paper, was a prophet who could see into the future from both sides of the male and from the side of the female.
Abstract: On sexual difference: Let's start with these small points. One day Zeus and Hera, the ultimate couple, in the course of one of their intermittent and thoroughgoing disagreements-which today would be of the greatest interest to psychoanalysts-called on Tiresias to arbitrate. Tiresias, the blind seer who had enjoyed the uncommon fortune of having lived seven years as a woman and seven years as a man. He was gifted with second sight. Second sight in a sense other than we might usually understand it: it isn't simply that as a prophet he could see into the future. He could also see it from both sides: from the side of the male and from the side of the female.

322 citations

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TL;DR: The program led to decreases in the pregnancy rates of 9th-12th grade students and was designed and administered by the staff of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicines Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics.
Abstract: This article reports on a school-based program for the primary prevention of pregnancy among US inner-city adolescents that was designed and administered by the staff of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicines Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics. 4 schools in the Baltimore school system--2 junior high schools and 2 senior high schools--participated. The program provided the students attending one of the junior high schools and one of the senior high schools with sex and contraceptive education individual and group counseling and medical and contraceptive services over a period of almost 3 school years. The other 2 schools served as controls. A survey was conducted to ascertain knowledge attitudes and behavior of the students. The junior high school in which the pregnancy prevention program was introduced is a community school serving an all-black inner-city population. At the baseline survey 667 male students and 1033 female students completed the questionnaire. At the final survey nearly 3 years later 506 male students and 695 female students answered the questionnaire. The baseline survey data revealed high levels of sexual activity in both the program and the nonprogram schools. Almost 92% of boys in the 9th grade of the program junior high school were sexually active as were 54% of the comparable girls. More overall improvement would be gained by helping students holding positive attitudes toward pregnancy prevention translate those attitudes into action than by attempting to change the attitudes of the few who do not share that view. A large proportion of both male and female students cited an ideal age for childbearing that was lower than the age they considered ideal for marriage. After exposure to the program the % decreased among the girls but not the boys. The proportion of sexually active students in the program schools who attended a clinic rose at all grade levels for both male and female students. At the baseline survey pill use was found to increase with age. After exposure to the program the % using the pill increased among all grade levels. Use of no contraceptive method at last intercourse was reduced to extremely low levels after exposure to the program. After 20 months of exposure to the program the conception rate fell by 22.5%. The program led to decreases in the pregnancy rates of 9th-12th grade students.

246 citations