{"product_id":"dilemmas-of-desire-teenage-girls-talk-about-sexuality-9780674018563","title":"Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality","description":"\u003cp\u003eBe sexy but not sexual. Dont be a prude but dont be a slut. These are the cultural messages that barrage teenage girls. In movies and magazines  in music and advice columns  girls are portrayed as the object or the victim of someone elses desire--but virtually never as someone with acceptable sexual feelings of her own. What teenage girls make of these contradictory messages  and what they make of their awakening sexuality--so distant from and yet so susceptible to cultural stereotypes--emerges for the first time in frank and complex fashion in Deborah Tolmans Dilemmas of Desire.  A unique look into the world of adolescent sexuality  this book offers an intimate and often disturbing  sometimes inspiring  picture of how teenage girls experience  understand  and respond to their sexual feelings  and of how society mediates  shapes  and distorts this experience. In extensive interviews  we listen as actual adolescent girls--both urban and suburban--speak candidly of their curiosity and confusion  their pleasure and disappointment  their fears  defiance  or capitulation in the face of a seemingly imperishable double standard that smiles upon burgeoning sexuality in boys yet frowns  even panics  at its equivalent in girls.  As a vivid evocation of girls negotiating some of the most vexing issues of adolescence  and as a thoughtful  richly informed examination of the dilemmas these girls face  this readable and revealing book begins the critical work of understanding the sexuality of young women in all its personal  social  and emotional significance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648335110197,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674018567","price":24.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674018563.jpg?v=1781716208","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/dilemmas-of-desire-teenage-girls-talk-about-sexuality-9780674018563","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}