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Governmentality and U.S. Congressional Discourse Regarding Abstinence-Only Sexuality Education

To investigate how federal discourse constructs adolescence, the author analyzed discussions of abstinence-only sexuality education from the U.S. Congressional Record from 2001 to 2007. He used grounded theory methodology to identify theoretical codes and construct a model from the data. The grounded theory developed focused on Congress’s maintenance of its role in mediating concern over the sexual behavior of adolescents as opposed to finding a solution to the problem it had identified. The author relates this theory to Foucault’s (1974/1991) concept of governmentality. He discusses Congress’s discourse about adolescence using Lesko’s (2001) confident characteristics of adolescence as a framework.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:GEORGIA/oai:digitalarchive.gsu.edu:eps_diss-1011
Date03 July 2007
CreatorsBoozer, Wm S
PublisherDigital Archive @ GSU
Source SetsGeorgia State University
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceEducational Policy Studies Dissertations

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