Dilemmas of desire : teenage girls talk about sexuality / Deborah L. Tolman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tolman, Deborah L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--Sexual behavior.

Teenage girls.

Teenage girls--Attitudes.

Interpersonal relations in adolescence.

Physical Description:

xii, 259 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.

Summary:

A unique look into the world of adolescent sexuality, this book offers an intimate and often-disturbing, sometimes-inspiring picture of how teenage girls experience, understand, and respond to their sexual feelings, and of how society mediates, shapes, and distorts this experience.

Contents:

1 Getting beyond "It Just Happened" 1

2 Voices of Desire 25

3 Sounds of Silence 50

4 Dangers of Desire 80

5 Parameters of Pleasure 118

6 Geographies of Desire 166

7 Speaking of Desire 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-249) and index.

ISBN:

0674008952

OCLC:

49559019