Author: Weekes D.

Source: Sex Education, Volume 2, Number 3, 1 November 2002 , pp. 251-262(12)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

Despite reported increasing levels of teenage pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infection among African-Caribbean young people in the UK, young Black women express sexual identities that are both over- and non-sexualised and exclude themselves from reference to sexual desire and experience. This article will argue that through engaging in complex processes of denigrating the sexual activity of other peers, young Black women attempt to portray themselves as sexually respectable. In doing so, they become entangled in the tensions created by such positions within school-based discourses of heterosexism. This discussion will explore the processes and implications of hiding/silencing Black female sexuality both for the emerging identities of Black girls and the sex educational discourses which attempt to engage with them.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2002-11-01

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