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The Politics of Virginity: Abstinence in Sex Education (Reproductive Rights and Policy Series) Hardcover – 30 May 2008

by Alesha Doan (Author), Jean Williams (Author)
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"An indictment of abstinence-only curricula." - Education Week

"The notion that the only sex education teenagers need are zippy t-shirt slogans like "Earn your right to wear white: ABSTAIN" would make many of us who remember being a teenager snort with laughter. It's hard enough to get a teenager to clean their room--forcing them to abstain from one of life's most pleasurable activities? Forget it. As The Politics of Virginity points out, a recent survey shows that, despite the preaching of abstinence, half of US teens engage in sexual intercourse. But while these school curricula, supported by America's religious conservatives, may not be stopping teenagers from having sex, they are far from benign. Alesha Doan and Jean Calterone Williams detail the insidious dangers of "morality politics" that is thrusting outdated notions of gender roles and sexuality on to young people under the guise of tackling disease and teenage pregnancy. Moreover, the decision not to educate teenagers about emergency contraception may mean that a young person ultimately finds herself having to choose between an abortion or an unwanted pregnancy. Many of these abstinence-only lessons tell teenagers that "normal" young women don't want sex outside of marriage and that girls do not have the same "biological urges" that boys have. Most repellent of all, several curricula exhort young women to dress conservatively so as not to provoke young men into a sexual frenzy that could lead to assault." - The Lancet

"This book attempts to explain how conservative Christians have politically mobilized to support abstinence-only sex education policies in schools. Doan (Univ. of Kansas) and Williams (California Polytechnic State Univ.) show that the interest groups on the Christian Right are pursuing a stealth political strategy to achieve their goals by inserting abstinence-only provisions in omnibus congressional bills....Recommended. General readers, students of all levels, and research faculty." - Choice

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This title argues that abstinence-only education in schools injure women's physical and psychological health, violate the Constitution, and flout the will of the majority of Americans.Abstinence is currently taught in place of sex education in a third of American public schools. Although most Americans oppose federal funding for abstinence-only education, the federal government has spent more than $1 billion on programs that promote abstinence before marriage as the sole healthy and moral choice. Studies show that students in abstinence programs are no more likely to abstain from sex than their peers. Moreover, they perpetuate gender stereotypes that disproportionately constrain women.The authors detail what abstinence programs teach students, expose the political and religious agendas behind them, and analyse the damaging effects to women of the resurrection of the chastity belt, including: sexual disempowerment, distorted power dynamics in relationships, increased vulnerability to sexual assault, increased emotional vulnerability and increased risk of unintended pregnancy and STD/HIV infection.

By focusing on the marriage of morality politics with gender politics and of ignorance with chastity that underlies abstinence-only education, the authors fill a major gap in the literature of reproductive politics and policy.Part of the "Reproductive Rights and Policy" series, this book links abstinence education to Christian right-wing political agendas, and suggests that girls are being taught to adhere to 1950s-era gender stereotypes even in unrelated areas of life.

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