Girls & sex : navigating the complicated new landscape

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Label

Girls & sex : navigating the complicated new landscape

Title remainder

navigating the complicated new landscape

Statement of responsibility

Peggy Orenstein

Title variation

Girls and sex

Creator

• Orenstein, Peggy

Author

• Orenstein, Peggy

Subject

• Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior -- United States
• Birth control
• Young women -- Sexual behavior -- United States
• Teenage girls -- Attitudes -- United States

Language

eng

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

Cataloging source

AZZPT

Dewey number

306.70835/2

Index

index present

LC call number

HQ27.5

LC item number

.O74 2016

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography