Adolescent sexuality : a historical handbook and guide

Cocca, Carolyn, 1971- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0313333998 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780313333996 (hbk.)
Physical Description: print
xv, 188 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2006.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-178), filmography (p. [179]-180) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Sex in adolescence : trends and theories from ancient Greece to the present / Vern Bullough -- 2. "16 will get you 20" : adolescent sexuality and statutory rape laws / Carolyn Cocca -- 3. Young and pregnant : teenage pregnancies in the United States / James W. Reed and John C. Spurlock -- 4. Facts of life and more : adolescent sex and sexuality education / Susan K. Freeman -- 5. Get real : representations of adolescent sexuality in the media / David M. Considine -- 6. Theories of adolescent sexuality and education about sex -- 7. The age of consent and the protection of females -- 8. Teen pregnancies and responses to them -- 9. Images of adolescent sexuality -- 10. Recent statistics on adolescent sexuality -- 11. Age of consent and statutory rape -- 12. Teens and contraception, pregnancy, birth, and abortion -- 13. Sex education and writings about sex for teens -- 14. Adolescence and adolescent sexuality, general -- 15. Films about teens and sex.