Examining Race and Sexuality
Appreciating the perspectives of Lamb and Peterson (2012) on sexual empowerment of adolescent girls and Tatum (1997) on race and adolescence, I have to step back a bit and raise some questions about this focus in the first place, as it seems unclear. Adolescence is a time when young people struggle to form their identities and know their place in the world, their role, their relation to others. I do not really think that sexual empowerment is a concept that is going find much definition at this stage in anyones life. Sex and sexuality are still such misunderstood concepts that even the researchers themselves admit that they deliberately adopt a position of ambiguity regarding how sexual empowerment is to be understood through the feminist lens.
Yet in an attempt to bring out some answers to the question of adolescent girls sexual empowerment they engage in a kind of point/counterpoint approach, hopeful of refining some thoughts on the matter. The problem nonetheless remains: if they as researchers struggle to make sense of these concepts through the feminist lens, why is it fathomable that adolescents would make any more meaning of them at their young age when they are walking between innocence and experience for the first time? The approach of Lamb and Peterson is interesting, but ultimately misguided; focus should be on why society places so much emphasis on these concepts in...
References
Lamb, S., & Peterson, Z. D. (2012). Adolescent girls’ sexual empowerment: Two feministsexplore the concept. Sex Roles, 66(11-12), 703-712. DOI: 10.1007/s11199-011-9995-3.
Tatum, B. D. (1997). Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Basic Books.
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