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Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom
Leslie Bell
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Description for Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom
Paperback. Offers an examination of the sex and love lives of the most liberated women in history - twenty-something American women who have had more opportunities, more positive role models, and more information than any previous generation. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338.
Hard to Get is a powerful and intimate examination of the sex and love lives of the most liberated women in history - twenty-something American women who have had more opportunities, more positive role models, and more information than any previous generation. Drawing from her years of experience as a researcher and a psychotherapist, Leslie C. Bell takes us directly into the lives of young women who struggle to negotiate the complexities of sexual desire and pleasure, and to make sense of their historically unique but contradictory constellation of opportunities and challenges. In candid interviews, Bell's subjects reveal that, despite ... Read more
Hard to Get is a powerful and intimate examination of the sex and love lives of the most liberated women in history - twenty-something American women who have had more opportunities, more positive role models, and more information than any previous generation. Drawing from her years of experience as a researcher and a psychotherapist, Leslie C. Bell takes us directly into the lives of young women who struggle to negotiate the complexities of sexual desire and pleasure, and to make sense of their historically unique but contradictory constellation of opportunities and challenges. In candid interviews, Bell's subjects reveal that, despite ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520283749
SKU
V9780520283749
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About Leslie Bell
Leslie C. Bell is a sociologist and psychotherapist who specializes in women's development and sexuality. She maintains a private practice in Berkeley, California.
Reviews for Hard to Get: Twenty-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom
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Anna Breslaw Cosmopolitan "Finally! A nuanced look at hookup culture. This hookup book is not like the others." Salon "Bell hopes to dislodge embedded stereotypes of men as subject and women as object and defuse the fear that our sexuality is ... Read more