Flirting with danger : young women's reflections on sexuality and domination / Lynn M. Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Lynn M.

Series:

Qualitative studies in psychology.

Qualitative studies in psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Sexual behavior--United States.

Young women.

Young women--United States--Interviews.

Man-woman relationships--United States.

Man-woman relationships.

Sexual harassment of women--United States.

Sexual harassment of women.

Sex discrimination against women--United States.

Sex discrimination against women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2000.

New York, NY : New York University Press, [2000]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Flirting with Danger , Lynn M. Phillips explores how young women make sense of, resist, and negotiate conflicting cultural messages about sexual agency, responsibility, aggression, and desire. How do women develop their ideas about sex, love, and domination? Why do they express feminist views condemning male violence in the abstract, but often adamantly refuse to name their own violent and exploitive encounters as abuse, rape, or victimization?. Based on in-depth individual and collective interviews with a racially and culturally diverse sample of college-aged women, Flirting with Danger sh

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Contextualizing the Study: Establishing an Interpretive Framework; 3. What's a Young Woman (Not) to Think? Sifting through Early Messages about Hetero-Relations; 4. Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Deciding How/ Who to Bein Hetero-Relationships; 5. Managing Contradictions: Getting in, out, and aroundHetero-Relations; 6. Controlling the Damage: Making Meaning When "ThingsGo Badly"; 7. Conclusion; Afterword: Lingering Dilemmas: How Much Do We Wantto Know?; Appendix A: Individual Interview Guide; Appendix B: Group Interview Discussion Topics

Appendix C: Analysis: Working with the DataNotes; References; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-242) and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jul 2024)

ISBN:

9780814768747

0814768741

9780814768150

0814768156

9780585424903

058542490X

OCLC:

779828245