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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779362503321

Autore

Bell Leslie C. <1970->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013

ISBN

1-283-86035-X

0-520-95448-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Disciplina

176.4

Soggetti

Young women - Sexual behavior

Sexual freedom

Man-woman relationships

Sexual ethics

Women - Identity

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.