Abstract
In 2004, Ashbourne High School1 staged the first school-sponsored student performance of The Vagina Monologues, sparking a community controversy covered in the local and national media about the sexuality of minors. Through a content analysis of archival documents and media coverage, this study examines the discursive politics of this community debate over sex, youth, and schools. The author finds that underlying this community’s abundant and atypical support for sexual speech in school was a pervasive gendered discourse of sexual risk, one that transposed teen talk about sex into culturally defensible, protective social action.
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