Dilemmas of Desire Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality

Name: Dilemmas of Desire Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality
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ISBN: 9780674018563

ISBN-10: 0674018567

ISBN-13: 9780674018563

Edition: 2002

Authors: Deborah L. Tolman

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Be sexy but not sexual. Don't be a prude but don't be a slut. These are the cultural messages that barrage teenage girls. In movies and magazines, in music and advice columns, girls are portrayed as the object or the victim of someone else's desire--but virtually never as someone with acceptable sexual feelings of her own. What teenage girls make of these contradictory messages, and what they make of their awakening sexuality--so distant from and yet so susceptible to cultural stereotypes--emerges for the first time in frank and complex fashion in Deborah Tolman's "Dilemmas of Desire. A unique look into the world of adolescent sexuality, this book offers an intimate and often disturbing,…

Book details

List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Getting beyond "It Just Happened"



Voices of Desire



Sounds of Silence



Dangers of Desire



Parameters of Pleasure



Geographies of Desire



Speaking of Desire


On Methodology


Notes


References


Index