Pleasure and Danger
Title | Pleasure and Danger PDF eBook |
Author | Carole S. Vance |
Publisher | Pandora Press |
Pages | 462 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780044408673 |
This is a contribution to the discussion of sexuality for women - sexual danger and sexual pleasure.
Flirting with Danger
Title | Flirting with Danger PDF eBook |
Author | Lynn Phillips |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2000-11 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0814766587 |
How young women make sense of, resist, and negotiate conflicting messages on female sexuality and sexual agency 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.
Reckoning
Title | Reckoning PDF eBook |
Author | Linda Hirshman |
Publisher | Mariner Books |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1328566447 |
History of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the first tales of workplace harassment percolating to the surface in the 1970s, to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, when liberal women largely forgave Clinton, giving men a free pass for two decades. Many liberals even resisted the movement to end rape on campus.
Dangerous Pleasures
Title | Dangerous Pleasures PDF eBook |
Author | Gail Hershatter |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 640 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520204386 |
In the past decade, as prostitution once again has become a recognized feature of Chinese society, it has been incorporated into a larger public discussion about what kind of modernity China should seek and what kind of sex and gender arrangements should characterize that modernity. Prostitutes, like every other non-elite group, did not record their own lives.
Risky Pleasures?
Title | Risky Pleasures? PDF eBook |
Author | Fiona Hutton |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 130 |
Release | 2016-04-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317062620 |
In this book Fiona Hutton provides a fascinating insight into women's experiences of clubbing. Based on a rich ethnographic account of the Manchester club scene, Risky Pleasures? is set within the context of the theoretical literature on youth subcultures, female friendship, consumption, risk and the city. The work highlights both the producers of club scenes - promoters, DJs, dealers - and the consumers - women negotiating pleasure and risk in club spaces and in the city at night. It explores the range of club spaces, developing a typology of 'mainstream' and 'underground' clubs, and considers how different types of participants are attracted to different 'scenes'. It examines women's recreational drug-use within a club context and discusses issues of sexuality, tolerance and the importance of 'attitude' in terms of women's feelings of safety. Revealing the important role of different spaces and different atmospheres in how women participate in club scenes, Fiona Hutton argues that drug taking and sexual pleasure are always contextualized within the environments created in different spaces, and that the risk and danger negotiated by women clubbers are counterbalanced by fun and pleasure - and ultimately empowerment.
Hostage to Pleasure
Title | Hostage to Pleasure PDF eBook |
Author | Nalini Singh |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2008-09-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1440632391 |
A rebel Psy scientist finds herself at the mercy of a changeling who has sworn vengeance against her kind in this thrilling romance in Nalini Singh’s New York Times bestselling series. Separated from her son and forced to create a neural implant that will mean the effective enslavement of her psychically gifted race, Ashaya Aleine is the perfect Psy—cool, calm, emotionless...at least on the surface. Inside, she’s fighting a desperate battle to save her son and escape the vicious cold of the PsyNet. Yet when escape comes, it leads not to safety, but to the lethal danger of a sniper’s embrace. DarkRiver sniper Dorian Christensen lost his sister to a Psy killer. Though he lacks the changeling ability to shift into animal form, his leopard lives within. And that leopard’s rage at the brutal loss is a clawing darkness that hungers for vengeance. Falling for a Psy has never been on Dorian’s agenda. But charged with protecting Ashaya and her son, he discovers that passion has a way of changing the rules...
Girls & Sex
Title | Girls & Sex PDF eBook |
Author | Peggy Orenstein |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2017-03-07 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0062674757 |
A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. 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 more than seventy young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, renowned journalist Peggy Orenstein goes where most others fear to tread, pulling back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities of girls’ sex lives in the modern world.