Her comparison of how parents and society deal with teens and sex in holland and the united states is all the more significant since both societies have been strongly influenced by calvinist protestantism and both cultures prize social equality individuality and autonomy.
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Amy is associate professor of sociology at the university of massachusetts amherst and a specialist on adolescent sexuality and culture in comparative perspective.
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Schalet s book may be the most useful scholarly work ever written about adolescent sexuality.
American developmental psychologists tend to view adolescent sexuality as part of.
In not under my roof amy schalet mines the radically different american and dutch understandings of adolescent sexuality their different takes on lust love gender hormones control and selfhood and comes away with scholarly gold carefully researched wicked smart and filled with the voices and stories of parents and teenagers schalet s is one of the best books on sexuality and.
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For american parents teenage sex is something to be feared and f.
Not under my roof will take us beyond our usual perspectives on adolescent sexuality.