The author of Feminist Fatale gives voice to the sexual experiences, needs, values, and identities of a generation of women now in their twenties that explores the changing sexual evolution of young women over the past decade. Reprint. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)