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Not Under My Roof - Amy T. Schalet

Not Under My Roof

Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
312 Seiten
2011
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-73619-8 (ISBN)
CHF 48,85 inkl. MwSt
Drawing on interviews with parents and teens, this title offers an intimate account of the different ways that girls and boys in the United States and the Netherlands negotiate love, lust, and growing up. It provides a probing analysis of the way family culture shapes not just sex but also alcohol consumption and parent-teen relationships.
For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden: most would never consider allowing their children to have sex at home, and sex is a frequent source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less frequent than in the United States, parents aim above all for family cohesiveness, often permitting young couples to sleep together and providing them with contraceptives. Drawing on extensive interviews with parents and teens, "Not Under My Roof" offers an unprecedented, intimate account of the different ways that girls and boys in both countries negotiate love, lust, and growing up. Tracing the roots of the parents' divergent attitudes, Amy Schalet reveals how they grow out of their respective conceptions of the self, relationships, gender, autonomy, and authority. She provides a probing analysis of the way family culture shapes not just sex but also alcohol consumption and parent-teen relationships.
Avoiding caricatures of permissive Europeans and puritanical Americans, Schalet shows that the Dutch require self-control from teens and parents, while Americans guide their children toward autonomous adulthood at the expense of the family bond.

Amy Schalet is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Sprache englisch
Maße 16 x 23 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-226-73619-9 / 0226736199
ISBN-13 978-0-226-73619-8 / 9780226736198
Zustand Neuware
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