Deserving Desire

Women's Stories of Sexual Evolution

Beth Montemurro (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2014
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-6439-5 (ISBN)

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Women experience considerable changes in their bodies, lives, and identity between the ages of twenty and seventy, including marriage, motherhood, the dissolution of relationships, and menopause, all of which often impact sexuality. In Deserving Desire, Beth Montemurro takes a wide-ranging look at the evolution of women’s sexuality over time, with a specific focus on the development of sexual subjectivity—that is sexual confidence, agency, and a sense of entitlement to sexual desire.
Detailed stories of the ninety-five women in this study explore how they become more comfortable with their bodies, when most begin to enjoy sex, feel confident and positive about engaging in it, and how they become sexual subjects in control of their bodies. Deserving Desire explores the complex multi-stage process in which sexual subjectivity evolves over a woman’s lifetime. As girls, they learn about sex and how those around them—parents, peers, religion and media—regard sex. Physical and emotional transitions such as having a baby or ending a relationship further affect women’s sexual confidence and desire. Montemurro emphasizes that sexual subjectivity is about feeling in control of sexual decision making and acting purposefully and confidently.
Though adolescent sexuality has been a major focus of sociological research, few studies have examined, as Montemurro does here, the development of sexuality through women’s lives and the events that change the way women feel about themselves, their bodies, and their relationships.

BETH MONTEMURRO is an associate professor of sociology at Penn State University, Abington. She is the author of Something Old, Something Bold: Bridal Showers and Bachelorette Parties (Rutgers University Press).

Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Developing a Stance: Sowing the Seeds of Sexual Subjectivity
3. Learning through Doing: Early Exploration and Experience
4. Validation, Affirmation, and Encouragement: Sexual Relationships of Consequence
5. Self- Discovery through Role and Relationship Changes: Divorce
6. Self- Discovery through Role and Relationship Changes: Motherhood
7. Self-Discovery through Embodied Changes: The Physical Experience of Motherhood
8. Self- Discovery through Embodied Changes: Aging and Menopause
9. Self- Acceptance: Staying Sexual Subjects
Appendix A: Demographic Characteristics of Research Participants
Appendix B: Methodology
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.9.2014
Zusatzinfo	7 tables
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8135-6439-5 / 0813564395
ISBN-13	978-0-8135-6439-5 / 9780813564395
Zustand	Neuware