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Human Sexuality and Human Society

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 81.03.03

Unit Guide

Sex Roles, Courting and Marriage Among Puerto Rican Teenagers

D. Jill Savitt

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Dreamsnake Vonda McIntyre

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One Fat Summer Robert Lipsyte
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Something for Joey Richard E. Peck
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Tunes for a Small Harmonica Barbara Wersba
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Z for Zachariah Robert C. O’Brien

I also obtained a number of resources that deal with sex equity and Hispanic women. This material is from the Los Angeles Unified School District and deals more with Chicano women. However, I feel that the unifying factors between the Puerto Rican culture and the Chicano culture are more relevant than are the differences between them. The Commission for Sex Equity of the L.A. School District is in the process of setting up a library of sex equity resources. The following sources pertinent to this unit are included:

1. Las Mujeres: Conversations from a Hispanic community . Nan Elsasser, Kyle Mackenzie and Yvonne Tixler y Vigil. The feminist Press, 192 pgs. (from the series Women’s Lives, Women’s Work).
2. Cross Cultural Study of Women . Mary I. Edwards and Margot Morrow. The Feminist Press.
3. Bless Me Ultima . Rudolfo Anaya. Tonatiuh International, 1972, 248 pgs.
4. Racist and Sexist Images in Children’s Books . Children’s Rights Workshops Papers on Children’s Literature No. 1. Writers and Readers Publishing Cooperative.
5. The Chicana Feminist . Martha Cotera. Information Systems Development, 1977.
6. Diosa Y Hembra . Martha Cotera. Information Systems Development, 1976.
7. Many Sisters’ Women in Cross-Cultural Perspective . Carolyn Mattiasso Mattiasson. Macmillan Publishing Co., 1974.
*8. Hispanic Women in Education Women’s Educational Equity Communications Network, 1978.
*This book is an annotated selected reference work that might be most helpful . It may be ordered from the Women’s Educational Equity Act Program within the U.S. Department of Education.

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