Communicating Intimate Health

Angela F. Cooke-Jacksonis associate professor of health communication and behavioral science at California State University, Los Angeles, and co-director of the Intimate Communication Lab.Valerie Rubinsky is assistant professor of communication at the University of Maine at Augusta and co-director of the Intimate Communication Lab.

"At a time when people throughout the world are coming to embrace and understand intersectional gender identities like never before Communicating Intimate Health provides a refreshingly brilliant collection of essays that extend our thinking beyond what we ever knew possible. This is a book any scholar committed to gender justice will want to add to their libraries.”

• Table of ContentIntroduction: Communicating Intimate Health: From the Bedroom to the Doctor’s OfficeValerie Rubinsky & Angela Cooke-JacksonPart 1: Absence as a Theme of Intimate Health CommunicationChapter 1: Sweet Nothings: A Journey of (Gay) Sex without Condoms By Andrew Spieldenner & Nic FloresChapter 2: “Why Don’t All Parents Talk About This Stuff:” Informational, Emotional, and Cultural Barriers to Meaningful Parent-Child Conversations About SexBy Amanda HolmanChapter 3: “The Sex Talk was Taboo… So was Wearing a Tampon:” Sexual and Menstrual Health Conversations among Young Latina and Latinx Women and Gender MinoritiesBy Ashley Aragón and Angela Cooke-JacksonChapter 4: Intimate Conversations about Sex and Sexuality: Lessons Learned from Studying Purity PledgesBy Jimmie ManningChapter 5: Intimate Communication Guidelines for Transformative Sexual EducationBy Angela Cooke-Jackson, Taylor McMahon, and Kavita Shah Chapter 6: The (S)lack of Queer Healthcare in Appalachia By