Girls & sex : navigating the complicated new landscape
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x, 317 pages ; 21 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-303) and index.
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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, 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. While the media has focused-often to sensational effect-on the rise of casual sex and the prevalence of rape on campus, in Girls and Sex Peggy Orenstein brings much 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. In Orenstein's hands these issues are never reduced to simplistic "truths;" rather, her powerful reporting opens up a dialogue on a potent, often silent, subtext of American life today-giving readers comprehensive and in-depth information with which to understand, and navigate, this complicated new world.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Orenstein, P. (2017). Girls & sex: navigating the complicated new landscape (First Harper paperback edition.). Harper.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Orenstein, Peggy. 2017. Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. Harper.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Orenstein, Peggy. Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape Harper, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Orenstein, Peggy. Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape First Harper paperback edition., Harper, 2017.

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