Dialogue between parents and teenagers about sexuality: moral and medical discourse reproducing gender inequalities/Dialogos entre padres y adolescentes sobre sexualidad: discursos morales y medicos en la reproduccion de las desigualdades de genero/Dialogo entre padres y adolescentes sobre sexualidad: discursos morales y medicos en la reproduccion de las desigualdades de genero
Teenage girls and boys construct certain dimensions of their sexuality through dialogue with adults, who transmit values and standards to them. This paper analyzes conversations about sexuality between teenagers and their parents, in which medical and moral discursive registers are interlinked. The...
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Published in: | Interface (Botucatu, Brazil) Vol. 14; no. 32; p. 171 |
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Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | Spanish |
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01-01-2010
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Summary: | Teenage girls and boys construct certain dimensions of their sexuality through dialogue with adults, who transmit values and standards to them. This paper analyzes conversations about sexuality between teenagers and their parents, in which medical and moral discursive registers are interlinked. The study was based on 46 individual interviews with boys and girls between 15 and 19 years of age, from middle-level socioeconomic strata who were living in Trelew (a city of 90,000 inhabitants in Patagonia, Argentina) and attending high school. To explain differences in the dynamics of dialogue between the teenage girls and boys, we constructed the notions of parental control over teenage girls' sexuality and material and discursive omnipresence of condoms. These notions show how this dialogue with adults is crossed by unequal gender expectations that are, in turn, reinforced by these adults. Keywords: Teenagers. Sexuality. Dialogue with parents. As mulheres e os homens adolescentes constroem determinadas dimensoes da sua sexualidade a partir do dialogo com adultos, que lhes transmitem valores e normas. O artigo analisa conversas sobre sexualidade de adolescentes com seus pais, onde sao articulados registros discursivos medicos e morais. A pesquisa e baseada em 46 entrevistas individuais com homens e mulheres de 15 a 19 anos de estratos socioeconomicos medios que residem em Trelew, cidade de noventa mil habitantes da Patagonia Argentina, e cursam o Ensino Medio. Para explicar as dinamicas diferenciadas de dialogo entre adolescentes mulheres e homens, elaboramos as nocoes de controle parental da sexualidade feminina adolescente e onipresenca material e discursiva do preservativo. Essas nocoes mostram como esses dialogos com adultos sao atravessados por expectativas desiguais de genero que, por sua vez, eles mesmos reforcam. Palavras-chave: Adolescentes. Sexualidade. Dialogo com pais. Las mujeres y los hombres adolescentes construyen determinadas dimensiones de su sexualidad a partir del dialogo con adultos que les transmites valores y normas. El articulo analiza conversaciones sobre sexualidad de adolescentes con sus padres en que se articulan registros discursivos medicos y morales. La investigacion se basa en 46 entrevistas individuales con hombres y mujeres de 15 a 19 anos de estratos socioeconomicos medios que residen en Trelew, ciudad de 90.00 habitantes de la Patagonia argentina, y cursan ensenanza media. Para explicar las dinamicas diferenciadas de dialogo entre adolescentes mujeres y adolescentes hombres, elaboramos las nociones de control parental de la sexualidad femenina adolescente y omnipresencia material y discursiva del preservativo. Estas nociones muestran como los dialogos con adultos son atravesados por expectativas desiguales de genero que, a su vez, ellos mismos refuerzan. Palabras clave: Adolescentes. Sexualidad. Dialogo con padres. |
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ISSN: | 1414-3283 |