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“Prevention, Prevention, Prevention. It’s All About Prevention and Diseases.” Migrant Girls’ Views on Sexuality Education

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This chapter analyzes how girls from various migrant backgrounds discuss sexuality education in the Nordic context. While research often focuses on medical and physiological perspectives of sexuality education, Veronika Honkasalo foregrounds young people’s own knowledge of sexuality, often ignored or defined as immature. The chapter focuses on how complex gender and ethnic relations are taken into account in educational contexts from young women’s perspectives. Through the concept of sexual citizenship, Honkasalo analyses how sexuality education normalizes and enforces heterosexuality, inequalities, and hierarchies based on gender, age, ethnicity, class, and sexuality.

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  1. Finnish Youth Research Network, Helsinki, Finland

    Veronika Honkasalo

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  1. Umeå Centre for Gender Studies (UCGS), Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

    Bodil Formark

  2. Finnish Youth Research Network, Helsinki, Finland

    Heta Mulari

  3. Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Myry Voipio

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Honkasalo, V. (2017). “Prevention, Prevention, Prevention. It’s All About Prevention and Diseases.” Migrant Girls’ Views on Sexuality Education. In: Formark, B., Mulari, H., Voipio, M. (eds) Nordic Girlhoods . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65118-7_6

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