Exploring Conceptions and Discourses of Gender, Sexuality and Pregnancy Amongst Mexican Adolescents by Miriam Weil-Behar

Author:Miriam Weil-Behar [Weil-Behar, Miriam]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781528962803
Google: iTjYzgEACAAJ
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Published: 2021-01-15T04:24:34+00:00

6.3. – Dominant Discourses in the Construction of Female Sexuality

Social expectations around girls and woman’s sexuality have been constructed in binary opposition and thus, as naturally different from boys and men despite these being socially and culturally constructed norms. In many cultures young women face tremendous social pressure to maintain an image of virginity and innocence regardless of the true extent of their knowledge or sexual experience. ‘Honest’ women should not have opinions on what they want in sex: it is up to the man to know how to please them (Sternberg, 2000). Therefore any practice or discourse, which admits her sexual knowledge, allows young woman’s sexual pleasure, values her performance or grants her control, categorises her as a loose woman (Szasz, 1998, 2006; Amuchástegui, 1999; Schiavon, 2008). As Holland et al. have also observed:

“Young women must manage their appearance very carefully in order to stay on the right side of the slippery boundary between being acceptably attractive and overly sexualised” (Holland et al. 1998: 111).

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