DOING DESIRE
- 1 September 1994
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Gender & Society
- Vol. 8 (3) , 324-342
- https://doi.org/10.1177/089124394008003003
Abstract
Adolescence is a moment when sexuality, identity, and relationships are heightened; at adolescence women begin to be vulnerable to losing touch with their own thoughts and feelings. Reporting from a larger study of adolescent girls' experiences of sexual desire, the author focuses on how adolescent girls who have different sexual orientations describe their experiences of sexuality and their responses to their own sexual desire. Cultural contexts that render girls' sexuality problematic and dangerous divert them from the possibilities of empowerment through their sexual desire.Keywords
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