Promiscuities : the secret struggle for womanhood /

Promiscuities follows a group of adolescent girls as they gradually become aware of themselves as sexual beings and discover what our culture tells them being female means. Drawing on her own experiences as well those of her contemporaries, Naomi Wolf reveals the secrets of our coming of age: the se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wolf, Naomi (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Random House, [1997]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Teenage girls > Sexual behavior > United States. Women > Sexual behavior > United States. United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980. Teenage girls > United States > Sexual behavior. Women > United States > Sexual behavior. Femininity > United States. Sex instruction for girls > United States. Adolescentes > États-Unis > Sexualité. Femmes > États-Unis > Sexualité. Femmes > États-Unis > Identité. Féminité > États-Unis. Éducation sexuelle des filles > États-Unis. États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 1960-1980. Adolescentes > Sexualité > États-Unis. Femmes > Sexualité > États-Unis. Sex instruction for girls Femininity Social conditions Teenage girls > Sexual behavior Women > Sexual behavior United States 1960-1980 autobiographies (literary works) Autobiographies Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:

The time and the place : 1968-1971
The facts of life
Activity into passivity : blanking out
Free flight to house arrest : slowing down
Nakedness : pride and shame
Girlfriends
Sluts
First base : hierarchy
Second base : love and control
Crash course : their bodies
Third base : iIdentity
Fourth base : how to make a woman
Skipped homework : our bodies
More skipped homework : our pleasure
Babies
Cheap or precious?
Adults
A virus
An hypocrisy
The technically white dress
The time and the place : 1996.