KP211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Literature Review
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Imbalance between what women desire and traditional gender roles. Constrained in part due to natural sex. Society working to incorporate women desires into structure. Sports a new arena to proclaim new thresholds of physical expression and social freedom. Similar abilities to de ne oneself in sport as men. Acquire same positive characteristics of sport for success in society. Title 9: equalize sport opportunities for women. Sports, sexual behaviour, contraceptive use, and pregnancy among female and male high school students: testing cultural resource theory. Look to curb social dysfunction of teenage pregnancy. Sexual behaviour highlight shifting patterns of gender relations. Athletic participation leads to less pregnancy in girls but more parenthood for boys. Cultural scripts based upon heterosexual gender expectations. Heavily in uence adolescent sexual behaviour: sexual bargaining. A traditional make script: conforms to sexual behaviour. Weakens script for women: limits in uence of sexual scripts. Lower sexual activity, more likely to use contraceptives, less likely to report pregnancy.