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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"adolescent sexuality"”.
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Not my kid : parents, teenagers, and adolescent sexuality
… the nation have been mired in battles over sexuality, including gay rights, censorship, and sex education. Based on indepth interview data with 47 racially and economically diverse parents of teenagers, this study explores how parents make sense of and try to guide their children's sexuality …
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Adolescent Sexuality in Indian Criminal Law: Towards Balancing Autonomy and Vulnerability
… I critique Indian criminal law’s regulation of adolescent sexuality and propose recommendations aimed at balancing the developing sexual autonomy of adolescents with their particular vulnerabilities. I argue that the regulation of adolescent sexuality by Indian criminal law is normatively over- …
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Adolescent sexuality in Namibia: An analysis of sexual knowledge, attitudes and practices among secondary school learners in Katutura
Adolescence is a time of great turmoil, and adolescents are going through a struggle of identities. The thesis demonstrates socio-cultural influences on adolescent sexuality, focusing on secondary school learners in Katutura, a former township during apartheid. In Namibia adolescent sexuality has …
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Adolescent Sexuality and Gender Discourses in Seventeen, Cosmo Girl, and Teen: A Frame Analysis of Online Teen Magazines
… by analyzing the representation of teenage sexuality from a critical perspective. Informed by theories of representation, citationality, and ideology, I used Pan & Kosickis frame analysis to analyze three online teen magazines including Cosmo Girl, Seventeen, and Teen, focusing on 251 …
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Playing for keeps : an examination of arepp : Theatre for Life's applied theatre pedagogy with regards to adolescent sexuality
… Organisation, in its work of providing sexuality and social problem solving life-skills education for adolescents, towards the development of self-efficacy in school-going youth, by means of dramatic presentations. The research is broadly located in the fields of applied theatre, …
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Sexual behaviour of grade eleven students in Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape
This study deals with sexual behaviour of adolescents in a rural area of South Africa. The primary objective is to explore the sexual behaviour of rural adolescents, specifically with regard to the first time they engage in sexual intercourse, the number of sexual partners, their use of …
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FATHERS, SONS, AND PETS: INTERGENERATIONAL DESIRE AND TRAUMA IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF GAY ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY IN I'LL GET THERE. IT BETTER BE WORTH THE TRIP AND THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE
<p>Along with having similarities in their themes and narrative perspectives, John Donovan’s <em>I’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip</em>. (1969) and Isabel Holland’s <em>The Man Without a Face</em> (1972) use similar tropes like attraction to older men and the death of the protagonists’ …
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Student perceptions of parent-adolescent closeness and communication about sexuality : relations with sexual knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors
… and social complications that can occur for adolescents along with becoming sexually active. Many variables have been shown individually to influence sexuality. Of specific interest in this study was parent-adolescent closeness and communication about sexuality. Past research has found …
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The prevalence and characteristics of sexting behaviours among adolescents and adults in Cape Town, South Africa
… a risk behaviour, particularly as it relates to adolescent sexuality. The consequences of sexting may include humiliation, ostracism, depression, anxiety, suicide and criminal or legal action. As such, research into the practice is vital in order to mitigate the risk to adolescents. The current …
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Sexual subjects : a feminist post-structuralist analysis of female adolescent sexual subjectivity and agency
Research and intervention into female adolescent sexual health in the context of HIV/AIDS have been dominated by individualistic, cognitive perspectives, which present sexuality as a site of rational, individual choice and agency. A paradigm shift has occurred in recent years, advanced with the …
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Girls' voices and social policy : an examination of the effect of social policy on girls' sexuality
… analyzes the effect social policy has on girls' sexuality, examining three policies in-depth that target adolescent sexuality: age-of-consent laws, parental notification and/or consent laws and sexual education policies. The analysis focuses on what affect these policies have on the adolescent …
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Sexual tension : the imagined learner projected through the recontextualising of sexual knowledge into pedagogic communication in two curricula in South Africa and Ontario, Canada
… a sex negative hegemonic discourse of adolescent sexuality and, through a unique coding scheme, provides a framework for recognising the relative implicitness and explicitness of regulative discourses and their respective relations to power and control over sexual knowledge.
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Sexualidad adolescente y Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación: una experiencia en un instituto privado con Talleres Reflexivos
… search engines. Analyzing the perceptions of adolescents from a private high school around sexuality on these platforms, the researcher evaluates the influence of the Internet in the construction of adolescent sexuality and the role of comprehensive sexuality education. The study presents a …
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The Relationship Between Sexuality-Based Parent-Adolescent Communication And Overall Sexual Health Among Selected Undergraduate Students
… the plethora of changes that occur during the adolescent stage of life, individuals begin to gain a more thorough and profound understanding of the sexuality aspect of being. Parents and/or appropriate adult guardians have been shown to be indispensable in fostering the sexuality-related …
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A Narrative Analysis of the Romantic and Sexual Scripts of Pregnant/Parenting Adolescent Girls
<p>The romantic and sexual relationships of adolescent girls are still not sufficiently understood. For many years, the discourse about adolescent sexuality has focused almost exclusively on the negative consequences of sexual behaviors. This focus has limited much of the research in this area. The …
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Cuidate mija: power in everyday discourses about adolescent pregnancy in urban Ecuador
Adolescent pregnancy is a phenomenon which is heavily contested by local, national, and international entities. Problematically, the topic is predominantly referred to as a "social problem," a view which is often rooted in pathologized narratives about young people and their sexual and reproductive …
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A comparison of the knowledge and attitudes of school counselors trained in the prevention and awareness in schools of HIV/AIDS project and untrained counselors in Tanga Region, Tanzania
… those of untrained counsellorstowards HIV/AIDS, sexuality and reproductive rights of their students. Questionnaires were pre-tested and then administered face-to-face over a four week period in 2007. Eighty five counsellors were interviewed, 56 of these had received in-service training as …
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In Pursuit of Paternal Significance: Fathers' Influence on their Daughters' and Sons' Sexual Behaviors and Beliefs
… United States has the highest teen pregnancy and adolescent STD rates of any industrialized nation. Numerous factors are involved in adolescent sexual decision-making and the social-ecological framework suggests that there are multiple levels of influence on adolescent development, including …
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