Flirting with Danger

By Lynn Phillips. 2000

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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. Phillips makes an important contribution to the fields of female and adolescent sexuality, feminist theory, and feminist method. The volume will also be of particular use to advocates seeking to design prevention and intervention programs which speak to the complex needs of women grappling with questions of sexuality and violence.

Subfields: Education, Literature and Literary Theory, Strategy and Management

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Calling it Rape: Differences in Experiences of Women Who do or do not Label their Sexual Assault as Rape (2003, background): “Although we did not probe to the extent she did, Phillips (2000) provides insight into these women from her interviews with other young women who also did not label their experience as rape.”
Postfeminist sexual agency: Young women’s negotiations of sexual consent (2012, background): “…as a normal part of heterosexual relations rendering such experiences as nothing more than the result of an insatiable male sexual appetite and a woman’s poor communication of her intentions (Anderson and Doherty, 2008; Frith and Kitzinger, 1997; Gavey, 2005; Phillips, 2000; Pineau, 1989).”
Safer, Better Sex Through Feminism: The Role of Feminist Ideology in Women's Sexual Well-Being (2008, background): “In addition, although popular discourse is replete with depictions of women’s increased sexual freedom, scholars and critics have raised serious doubt that this apparent liberty has translated into healthier or more rewarding sexual experiences for women (Levy, 2005; Phillips, 2000).”
Normative Sexuality Development in Adolescence: A Decade in Review, 2000–2009 (2011, background): “Others have investigated how sexual subjectivityFdefined as having a sense of entitlement to sexual pleasure and sexual safetyFinteracted with intraindividual and psychological well-being (e.g., Impett & Tolman, 2006; Phillips, 2000).”
Functional Fear and Public Insecurities About Crime (2010, background): “Kelly (1987, 1988) and Phillips (1999, 2000) discuss the complexities of unwanted bhaviour and daily harassment for women, with a ‘continuum of violence’ (Kelly, 1987) placing relatively minor acts of abuse at one end (‘flashing’ and minor forms of sexual abuse) and acts like rape at the other end…”
All for Him: Articles About Sex in American Lad Magazines (2005, background): “Given traditional gender roles that portray women as sexual gatekeepers and men as sexually driven (DeLameter, 1987; Phillips, 2000), we would expect an even greater emphasis on topics related to sexual gratification than those related to sexual health in lad magazines than has been observed in wome”
Personal Control, Self-Efficacy in Sexual Negotiation, and Contraceptive Risk among Adolescents: The Role of Gender (2006, background): “There is tremendous pressure for female adolescents to be Bnice girls^—passive, modest, and sexually inexperienced (Kaplan, 1997; Luker, 1996; Phillips, 2000).”
A Match-and-Motivation Model of How Women Label Their Nonconsensual Sexual Experiences (2011, unknown): “Although researchers and activists have challenged these scripts recent research shows that these scripts persist (Ahrens, Cabral, & Abeling, 2009; Littleton, Breitkopf, & Berenson, 2007; Miller, Canales, Amacker, Backstrom, & Gidycz, 2011; Payne, Lonsway, & Fitzgerald, 1999; Phillips, 2000).”