Flirting with Danger : : Young Women's Reflections on Sexuality and Domination / / Lynn Phillips.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Phillips, Lynn,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Language: English
• Series: Qualitative Studies in Psychology ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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 sheds valuable light on the cultural lenses through which young women interpret their sexual encounters and their experiences of male aggression in heterosexual relationships. Phillips makes an important contribution to the fields of female and adolescent sexuality, feminist theory, and feminist method. The volume will also be of particular use to advocates seeking to design prevention and intervention programs which speak to the complex needs of women grappling with questions of sexuality and violence.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 Be in Hetero-Relationships -- 5. Managing Contradictions: Getting in, out, and around Hetero-Relations -- 6. Controlling the Damage: Making Meaning When “Things Go Badly” -- 7. Conclusion -- Afterword: Lingering Dilemmas: How Much Do We Want to Know? -- Appendix A: Individual Interview Guide -- Appendix B: Group Interview Discussion Topics -- Appendix C: Analysis: Working with the Data -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author