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Gender & Society, Vol. 8, No. 3,
324-342 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/089124394008003003
DOING DESIRE
Adolescent Girls' Struggles for/with Sexuality
DEBORAH L. TOLMAN
Harvard University
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.

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