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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455672103321

Autore

Phillips Lynn M

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2000

ISBN

0-8147-6874-1

0-8147-6815-6

0-585-42490-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Collana

Qualitative studies in psychology

Disciplina

306.7/08352/0973

Soggetti

Young women - Sexual behavior - United States

Young women - United States

Man-woman relationships - United States

Sexual harassment of women - United States

Sex discrimination against women - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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