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Sex, Sexuality, Sexual Harassment and Homophobia
Am I the Last Virgin? And Other Tales About Black Female Sexuality by Tara Roberts, Simon & Schuster, 1997.
The Commonwealth Fund Survey of Adolescent Girls by Cathy Schoen, Karen Davis, and Karen Scott Collins, Commonwealth Fund Commission on Women’s Health, 1997.
Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book for Teens on Sex and Relationships by Ruth Bell, Three Rivers Press, 1998.
Free Your Mind: The Book for Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Youth and Their Allies by E. Bass and K. Kaufman, Harper Perennial, 1996.
Going All the Way: Teenage Girls’ Tales of Sex, Romance, and Pregnancy by Sharon Thompson, Hill and Wang, 1995.
Kids Having Kids: Special Report on the Costs of Adolescent Childbearing by Rebecca A. Maynard, Robin Hood Foundation, 1996.
No Easy Answers: Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy by Douglas Kirby, National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 1997.
One Teenager in Ten: Writings by Lesbian and Gay Youth by A Heron, Alyson Publications, 1983.
“Oral Sex Among Adolescents: Is It Sex or Is It Abstinence?” Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 32, Num. 6, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, Nov/Dec. 2000.
The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Secret World of Adolescent Boys and Girls by Dr. Lynn Ponton, N.P. Dutton Press, 2000.
Sex, Power, and the Violent School Girl by Sibylle Artz, Columbia Teachers College Press, 1999.
“Anti-Gay/Lesbian Violence in the United States: Local and National Trends, Analysis, and Incident Summaries.” by Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project, 1994.
Associations Between Health Risk Behaviors and Opposite-, Same-, and Both-Sex Sexual Partners in Representative Samples of Vermont and Massachusetts High School Students, Arch Pediatrics Adolescent Medicine, Centers for Disease and Crime Prevention, 2002.
“Choices, Not Closets: Heterosexism and Homophobia in Schools.” by Richard A. Friend in Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools, State University of New York Press, 1993.
Flirting or Hurting? A Guide on Student-to-Student Sexual Harassment in Schools by Nan Stein and Lisa Sjostrom, Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, 1994.
Secrets in Public: Sexual Harassment in Our Schools by Nan Stein, Nancy Marshall, and Linda Tropp, Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, 1993.
Sexual Harassment: High School Girls Speak Out by J. Larkin, Second Story Press, 1994.