By Lynn Phillips
ISBN-10: 0814766587
ISBN-13: 9780814766583
In Flirting with risk, Lynn M. Phillips explores how younger women make feel of, withstand, and negotiate conflicting cultural messages approximately sexual organization, accountability, aggression, and wish. How do ladies increase their principles approximately intercourse, love, and domination? Why do they show feminist perspectives condemning male violence within the summary, yet usually adamantly refuse to call their very own violent and exploitive encounters as abuse, rape, or victimization? according to in-depth person and collective interviews with a racially and culturally assorted pattern of college-aged ladies, Flirting with threat sheds beneficial gentle at the cultural lenses in which younger women interpret their sexual encounters and their reports of male aggression in heterosexual relationships. Phillips makes an incredible contribution to the fields of lady and adolescent sexuality, feminist conception, and feminist strategy. the quantity can be of specific use to advocates trying to layout prevention and intervention courses which converse to the advanced wishes of ladies grappling with questions of sexuality and violence.
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They recalled reading about women’s sexualities and girls’ sexual development in such books as The New Our Bodies Ourselves (Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, 1984) and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Blume, 1971). And all were able to critique the sexist (and often racist, classist, and hetero-sexist) images they encountered in their women’s magazines, in movies, and on TV. Yet in other ways, they seemed as affected (if not more) by the backlash ❙ 35 36 ❙ What’s a Young Woman (Not) to Think?
The participants spoke often and easily about feminist politics and gender, race, class, and sexual inequalities. They were outspoken about violence against women and seemed remarkably uninhibited about telling me, an adult researcher, the details of their sex lives—something my friends and I would never have considered doing when we were in college. Some also spoke of their mothers as second-wave feminists with whom they could discuss questions about their bodies and their sexualities. They recalled reading about women’s sexualities and girls’ sexual development in such books as The New Our Bodies Ourselves (Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, 1984) and Are You There God?
Frances, 21, “heterosexual,” “American Indian/French”) Across the interviews, the women’s stories revealed a subtle, and often not so subtle, flood of conflicting messages about how they should act and what they should expect from themselves, from men, and from their hetero-relationships. Indeed, the contradictions and “booby traps” were dizzying. Yet as I read and reread the interview transcripts, I began to discern certain patterns emerging across the messages these young women took away from the early hetero-relational lessons they had encountered.
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