A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow's women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over seventy young women an...

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Main Author:	Orenstein, Peggy 1961- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Oneworld 2016
Subjects:	Teenage girls > Sexual behavior > United States Teenage girls > United States > Attitudes Young women > Sexual behavior > United States USA
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, the mothers and fathers of tomorrow's women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with over seventy young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, journalist Peggy Orenstein pulls back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities of girls' sex lives in the modern world. While the media has focused ... often to sensational effect ... on the rise of casual sex and the prevalence of rape on campus, Orenstein brings more to the table. She examines the ways in which porn and all its sexual myths have seeped into young people's lives; what it means to be the "the perfect slut" and why many girls scorn virginity; the complicated terrain of hookup culture and the unfortunate realities surrounding assault
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-290) and index
Physical Description:	x, 303 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:	9781786070494 9781786070500