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Biography
Amy Schalet is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor's degree in Social Studies from Harvard University. Dr. Schalet's research has focused on sexuality and culture and she has authored several publications on comparative adolescent sexuality. Her new book, Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex, published by the University of Chicago Press, examines approaches to adolescent sexuality in American and Dutch families. Prior to coming to the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Schalet held a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she pursued the public health and policy implications of her research on adolescent sexual health. Dr. Schalet has given plenary addresses at sexual and reproductive health conferences, including the CDC Conference on STD-Prevention. She was recently awarded a grant by the Ford Foundation entitled, "Advancing Sexuality Education, Health and Policy Using a New ABCD for Adolescent Sexuality" which will expand previous work with physicians to educators, administrators, and school-based nurses.
About Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex
For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden, and sex is often a source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less frequent than in the United States, parents aim above all for family cohesiveness, often permitting young couples to sleep together and providing them with contraceptives. Probing our child-rearing for what it tells us about our culture, Not Under My Roof offers an unprecedented, intimate account of the different ways that girls and boys in both countries negotiate sex, love, and growing up.
For more information, please visit www.amyschalet.com