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Be sexy but not sexual. Don't be a prude but don't 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 else's 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 Tolman's 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.

Teenage girls --- Interpersonal relations in adolescence. --- Adolescent psychology --- Adolescent girls --- Female adolescents --- Girls --- Teenagers --- Sexual behavior. --- Attitudes.

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"This handbook on sexuality and psychology is divided into four parts: 1. commodification of sex; 2. treating sexuality; 3. sexuality, rights, and social change; and 4. sexuality and public institutions. Within these sections, the following topics are discussed: sexuality and pornography; sexuality and sex work; sexuality and new technologies; sexuality and psychotherapy; the history of sexual medicine; sexuality and culture; sexual social movements and communities; sexual rights for marginalized populations; sexuality and globalities; sexuality and social policy; sexuality education; sexuality and entertainment media; and sexuality and religion"--Create. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved).

Sex (Biology) --- Sex (Psychology)

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Sexuality is a fundamental component of human psychological experience, and yet it remains relatively underrepresented in the history of the psychological sciences. The APA Handbook on Sexuality and Psychology marks a turning point in the status of sexuality within the discipline of psychology. This comprehensive, two-volume handbook provides an overarching review of current empirical research on sexuality and a synthesis of the dominant theoretical perspectives that have guided both research and clinical practice. An organizing current throughout the volume is the integration of individual experience and social/cultural context across every domain of sexuality. This dual emphasis on person and context is reflected in the structure of the handbook itself. Volume 1 presents foundational information on the history, theoretical and methodological development and current practices in the field, and then moves on to address foundational aspects of sexuality, including desire, orientation, behavior and practices, individual lifespan development, and biological substrates. Volume 2 broadens the analytical frame to emphasize the core contextual factors known to influence the development, expression and interpretation of sexuality and its expression in and through all of the key social institutions of our society, including marginalized populations, education, sexual rights and communities, globalization, religion and the media"--

Sex (Psychology) --- Sexual Behavior --- Sexuality --- psychology --- Sexualité (psychologie)