Hard to get : twenty-something women and the paradox of sexual freedom / Leslie C. Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Leslie C., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Sexual behavior.

Young women.

Sexual freedom.

Man-woman relationships.

Sexual ethics.

Women--Identity.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Hard to Get is a powerful and intimate examination of the sex and love lives of the most liberated women in history-twenty-something American women who have had more opportunities, more positive role models, and more information than any previous generation. Drawing from her years of experience as a researcher and a psychotherapist, Leslie C. Bell takes us directly into the lives of young women who struggle to negotiate the complexities of sexual desire and pleasure, and to make sense of their historically unique but contradictory constellation of opportunities and challenges. In candid interviews, Bell's subjects reveal that, despite having more choices than ever, they face great uncertainty about desire, sexuality, and relationships. Ground-breaking and highly readable, Hard to Get offers fascinating insights into the many ways that sex, love, and satisfying relationships prove surprisingly elusive to these young women as they navigate the new emotional landscape of the 21st century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. The Paradox of Sexual Freedom

Part I. The Sexual Woman

Part II. The Relational Woman

Part III. The Desiring Woman

Appendix I. Splitting

Appendix II. Clinical Interviewing

Appendix III. Demographic Information about Respondents

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283860352

128386035X

9780520954489

0520954483

OCLC:

821216799