Pleasures and perils : girls' sexuality in a Caribbean consumer culture
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Pleasures and perils : girls' sexuality in a Caribbean consumer culture
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- Pleasures and perils : girls' sexuality in a Caribbean consumer culture
- Title remainder
- girls' sexuality in a Caribbean consumer culture
- Statement of responsibility
- Debra Curtis
- Subject
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- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Girls -- Attitudes
- Girls -- Saint Kitts and Nevis | Nevis -- Attitudes
- Girls -- Sexual behavior
- Girls -- Sexual behavior -- Saint Kitts and Nevis | Nevis
- Jugend
- Nevis
- PSYCHOLOGY -- Human Sexuality
- SELF-HELP -- Sexual Instruction
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies | Hispanic American Studies
- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Nevis
- Sex -- Social aspects
- Sex -- Social aspects -- Saint Kitts and Nevis | Nevis
- Sex in popular culture
- Sex in popular culture -- Saint Kitts and Nevis | Nevis
- Sexualität
- Electronic book
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Pleasures and Perils follows a group of young girls living on Nevis, an island society in the Eastern Caribbean. In this provocative ethnography, Debra Curtis examines their sexuality in gripping detail: why do Nevisian girls engage in sexual activity at such young ages? Where is the line between coercion and consent? How does a desire for wealth affect a girl's sexual practices?. Curtis shows that girls are often caught between conflicting discourses of Christian teachings about chastity, public health cautions about safe sex, and media enticements about consumer delights. Sexuality's contrad
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- digitized
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Dewey number
- 306.7082/0972973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ27.5
- LC item number
- .C87 2009eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- The Rutgers series in childhood studies
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