Race, Class, and Emerging Female Sexuality: Teacher Perceptions and Sexual Harassment in Schools
Document Type
Presentation
Presentation Date
4-16-2009
Abstract or Description
This paper presents the findings from a study we conducted with eleven middle and high school teachers from southeastern Georgia from both rural and urban districts. In-depth interviews were conducted to determine how their experiences and perceptions impact their understanding of the emerging sexuality of students in their classrooms and the degree to which sexual harassment is present. Several findings emerged including adverse sexual labels continue to serve as a means of sexual harassment that many teachers don't recognize, and that perceptions of sexuality and "acceptable behavior" remain deeply embedded in race and class issues, and these racial and class stereotypes often allow sexual harassment to prevail in the lives of many adolescent girls.
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA)
Location
San Diego, CA
Recommended Citation
Rahimi, Regina, Delores D. Liston.
2009.
"Race, Class, and Emerging Female Sexuality: Teacher Perceptions and Sexual Harassment in Schools."
Department of Curriculum, Foundations, & Reading Faculty Presentations.
Presentation 46.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/curriculum-facpres/46
