Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity

by Lorena Garcia

Book Overview

Exploring young Latina youth's sexual agency, education, and expression

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" (or worse) suggest. In Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself, Lorena Garcia examines how Latina girls negotiate their emerging sexual identities...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814733174
• ISBN13: 9780814733172
• Release Date: February 1984
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"