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| The Enigma of Women's Sexuality | |
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| Opening Pandora's Box | |
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| Everyone Knows What Sex Is, Don't They? | |
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| If It's Not Just Intercourse, What Is It? | |
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| The Meaning of Sexual Meanings | |
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| The Construction of Sexual Meanings | |
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| Problematic Meanings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Childhood and Adolescence | |
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| Teaching the Children | |
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| "Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice": Biological Development | |
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| Girls' Psychological Development | |
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| Messages and Meanings | |
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| Summary and Recommendations | |
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| Adolescence: Biological and Psychological Development | |
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| Biological Development | |
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| Psychological Development | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Menstruation: Initiation into Womanhood | |
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| The Things We Needed Mother "and Dad" to Tell Us: Parental Messages | |
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| A Friend in Need: Messages of Peers | |
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| Of Cleanliness and Womanliness: Media Messages | |
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| Religious and Medical Messages | |
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| Summary: Problematic Meanings | |
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| Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| "Bawdy" Image: From Subject to Object | |
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| Changing Roles and Expectations: Messages of Significant Others | |
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| Objects of Desire: Media Messages | |
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| Summary: Problematic Meanings | |
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| Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Who Loves Ya, Babe?: Sexual Intimacies and Expression | |
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| Sex as Love: Parental Messages | |
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| Sex as Status: The Messages of Peers | |
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| "Intimate" Partners: Mixed Messages | |
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| Sex as Surrender: Media Messages | |
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| Sex as Weapon: Sexual Violence | |
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| Summary: Problematic Meanings | |
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| Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Young Adulthood | |
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| Biological and Psychological Development | |
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| Biological Development | |
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| Psychological Development | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Creating a Life | |
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| Sexual Invisibility: Messages to Mothers | |
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| Sexuality as Loss: Messages to Infertile Women | |
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| Incomplete Sexuality: Messages to the Voluntarily Childless | |
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| Summary: Problematic Meanings | |
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| Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings | |
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| In the Prime of Life: Living in Our Bodies | |
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| Have You Gained a Little Weight Lately?: Messages of Friends and Lovers | |
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| One Standard of Beauty--Tight, Light, and White: Media Messages | |
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| Summary: Problematic Meanings | |
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| Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Fanning the Flames of Desire | |
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| He Shoots, He Scores: The Male Model of Sexual Expression | |
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| Too Hot to Handle: Media Portrayals of Sex | |
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| Sexologists: The Purveyors of Scientific "Truths" | |
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| Intimate Partners: Myths and Miscommunication | |
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| Summary: Problematic Meanings | |
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| Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Middle and Later Years | |
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| Biological and Psychological Development | |
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| Biological Development during the Middle Years | |
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| Psychological Development during the Middle Years | |
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| Biological Development in Later Life: "You're as Young as You Feel" | |
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| Psychological Development in Later Life: Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained | |
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| When Being "Hot" Takes on New Meaning: Menopause | |
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| All "Dried" Up: Medical Messages | |
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| All "Used" Up: Media Messages | |
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| Secret Shame: Messages of Significant Others | |
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| Summary: Problematic Meanings | |
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| Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Festival of Lipid Migration: Bodily Changes and Body Image | |
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| Forever Young: Media Messages | |
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| Hourglass Figures, or "Time Is Running Out": Messages of the Beauty Industry | |
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| Between Lovers: Messages of Significant Others | |
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| Between Women | |
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| Summary: Problematic Meanings | |
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| Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Intimate Connections: Sexual Expression and Relationships | |
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| The Serviceable Vagina: Medical Messages | |
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| On the Downhill Slide: Media Images | |
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| Lovers and Other Strangers: Messages of Significant Others | |
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| Summary: Problematic Meanings | |
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| Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Coming Full Circle | |
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| Over the Hill: Medical Messages | |
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| Rocking Chairs and Apple Pies: Media Messages | |
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| Intimate Relationships: Messages of Significant Others | |
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| Summary: Problematic Meanings | |
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| Challenge and Change: Creating New Meanings | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| The Sexual Development of Children and Adolescents | |
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| Body Image and Struggles with Weight | |
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| The Aftermath of Sexual Violence | |
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| Lesbian Identity and Sexual Orientation | |
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| Reproductive Health and Decision Making | |
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| Disability and Illness | |
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| Issues for Women in the Middle and Later Years | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |