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>> 209 Aapola, Sinikka, 184n41 abortion: as birth control method, 88–89, 119; criticism of choice paradigm, 89–90, 181n8; immigrant/U.S.-born Latinas attitudes about, 89–91, 182n10; impact of generational status on attitudes towards, 89–90, 182n10; pregnancy vs., 59, 88–89, 97; in school-based sex education, 59 abstinence-only programs, 59, 66–67, 69, 155, 174n14, 177n11, 180n39, 188n11 academic achievement: achievement gaps, 173n43; educational aspirations and, 58–59, 68–74; femininity and, 58–59; high-stakes standardized testing, 75–76, 80–81, 180n35– 37; impact of ethnicity/race on, 179n29; impact of gender on, 179n29; poverty and, 173n43; respectability and, 58–59; risk discourse and, 15 acting white, 73, 173n43, 183n35 African American girls/young women, 5–6, 15, 28, 46, 80, 92, 173n43, 174n10, 179n29, 183n32, 186n28 age: age range for motherhood, 99; emerging sexual identity and, 62, 65, 136; good-girl/ bad-girl dichotomy and, 62; impact on negotiation of condom use, 187n33; marriage and, 30 agency: use of term, 6; agency vs. victim narrative , 15–17, 53, 108–9, 114; of boys/young men, 25; conceptualization of sexual safety, 16–17; femininity and, 183n33; good-girl/ bad-girl dichotomy and, 8, 93–94, 114, 149; heteronormativity and, 5, 137–38, 153–54; negotiation of emerging sexuality through, 5, 8, 90, 137, 149; respectability and, 152–53; risk discourse and, 15–18; self-protective sexual practices and, 5, 34–35, 53, 88–91, 90, 182n10; sexual subjectivity and, 6–8, 149–51. See also respectability Anzaldúa, Gloria, 154 Asencio, Marysol, 182n22 Asian American girls/young women, 5–6, 12 assimilation, 26, 52, 73, 89–90 at risk youth. See risk discourse Behrendt, Greg, 121–22, 185n9 Between Two Worlds (Pew Hispanic Center), 149 birth control: abortion as a method of, 88–89, 119; access to information about, 1–3, 63– 64, 104, 106–7; birth control pills, 1–3, 77, 106–8, 110, 185n14, 186n27; condom use, 10, 110, 117–18, 132–36, 187n33; conflicts about use of, 96–97; Depo-Provera injections, 3, 63, 64, 77, 106, 124, 185n14; fear of parental discovery of use, 1–3, 77, 148; hyperfertility discourse and, 64; parental consent for use, 1–3, 31, 57; Plan B, 115; strategies for safesex talks, 118–22, 187n33 Bolak, Hale C., 12 boundary formation: bounded sexuality, 96; good-girl/bad-girl dichotomy, 84–85, 113; impacts of boundary construction/deconstruction , 184n46; racial/ethnic boundary maintenance process, 21, 43–46, 54–55, 84–85, 118; safe-sex talk strategies through, 118; symbolic boundary of sexuality, 84–85, 113, 118, 152–53; through feminine sexual respectability, 113, 118, 143–45, 152–53 boys/young men: as accountable for sexual dangers, 143–44; as always thinking about sex, 157–58; as boyfriends, 3, 130–32, 136– 38, 184n4, 184n42; compulsive heterosexuality , 129–30; discussions about pleasure, Index 210 > 211 father-daughter communications, 38–41, 49, 53, 175n30–31 fatherhood, teen, 124 femininity: access to privilege and, 182n16; emphasized femininity, 93; femme aggressive gender presentation, 144; femme gender presentation, 144; gender maneuvering, 135–36; good-girl/bad-girl dichotomy, 60; heteronormativity and, 60; as naturalized gender-sexual scripts, 157–58; notions of appropriate femininity, 7, 96–97, 98, 103, 152–53; notions of respectability in motherdaughter communications, 17; notions of responsibility and, 7, 96–97, 98, 103, 152–53; respectability and, 7, 96–97, 98, 103, 152–53; responsibility and, 7, 96–97, 98, 103, 152–53; same-sex desire and, 65–67; sexual agency and, 183n33; successful futures and, 58–59, 67, 68–74, 78–79; “successful girls” discourse , 74, 179n34 feminism/feminist scholarship: analyses of mothering, 168–69; antagonistic intragender relationships, 102–3; critique of culture of love and romance, 174n9; empowerment paradigm of adolescent sexuality, 102–3, 149–50; feminist analyses of mothers, 168–69; feminist consciousness, 51–55; gender analysis, 7; good-girl/bad-girl dichotomy and, 93–94, 101–2; intersectionality , 8; “postfeminist” discourse, 179n34; researcher methodology and, 12–14; on sex education, 58, 155–56; successful girls discourse , 74, 179n34 Fields, Jessica, 58, 80, 122, 142–43, 157, 178n13 Fine, Michelle, 80 Fonseca, Claudia, 187n36 Frye, Marilyn, 149 Furstenberg, Frank F. Jr., 173n41 Gardner, Carole B., 129, 186n21 gender: doing/undoing gender, 7–8; genderspecific messages, 62; impact of on academic achievement, 179n29; migration studies and, 175n20; patriarchal bargains, 176n43; as performance, 187n35; racialization process of normativity, 151–152; as social construction, 6–8 gendered racial/ethnic discourse: discourse of success and, 15, 74; morality of...

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