Flirting with Danger

Synopsis: Social and developmental psychologist and author Lynn Phillips explores the line between consent and coercion in this thought-provoking look at popular culture and the ways real girls and women navigate their heterosexual relationships. Featuring dramatisations of interviews that Phillips conducted with hundreds of young women, the film examines how the wider culture’s frequently contradictory messages about pleasure, danger, agency, and victimisation enter into women’s most intimate relationships with men. The result is a refreshingly candid, and nuanced, look at how young women are forced to grapple with deeply ambivalent cultural attitudes about female sexuality. Essential for courses that look at popular culture, gender norms, sexuality, and sexual violence.
Language: English (United States)
Country: United States
Year of production: 2012
Notes: DVD non-regionally encoded.
Subjects: Social Studies; Women’s studies
Keywords: popular culture; sexual relationships; gender differences; heterosexual relationships

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