ABSTRACT

In the 1980s, at the onset of the AIDS crisis, as public debate around youth sex education intensified, teenage girls in Australia and the United States looked to teen girl magazines for up-to-the-minute information on sex. Through a close textual analysis of Seventeen and Dolly magazines and original oral history interviews, this article explores the role of Australian and American teen girl magazines in the sex education of teenage girls during this time. While these magazines existed in very different national contexts, both drew on their long-standing role as trusted advisors to provide frank advice on sex and AIDS to teenage girls. My approach highlights how girls used their magazines as sources of accurate practical information and platforms to speak out about the need to take girls’ sex education seriously, thus broadening our understanding of sex education and providing a new perspective on the agency of teenage girls within this.

摘要

1980 年代，在艾滋病危机爆发之际，随着围绕青年性教育的公开辩论愈演愈烈，澳大利亚和美国的少女开始通过少女杂志获取有关性的最新信息。通过对十七和多莉的仔细文本分析杂志和原创口述历史访谈，本文探讨了澳大利亚和美国少女杂志在这段时间在少女性教育中的作用。虽然这些杂志存在于截然不同的国家环境中，但它们都利用其作为值得信赖的顾问的长期角色，为少女提供有关性和艾滋病的坦率建议。我的方法强调了女孩如何利用她们的杂志作为准确实用信息的来源和平台来大声疾呼需要认真对待女孩的性教育，从而拓宽我们对性教育的理解，并为少女在这一过程中的作用提供了新的视角。 .