<p>Most studies of adolescence ignore gender, yet growing up is a quite different experience for girls and boys. Girls must deal with contradictory messages about their feminine identity - career or carer, autonomy or self-sacrifice, sexuality or motherhood in a society rife with double standards about women's sexuality. Drawing on the research from her original study but in the light of the changing social context of the 1990s, the author of this book examines how girls address the contradictions of women's conflicting roles and barriers and risks in accepting a feminist stance. Chapters include sexual relations in adolescence, mechanisms of defence and conformity, marriage and its alternatives, responsibility and masculine superiority.</p>

Sugar and Spice: Sexuality and Adolescent Girls

Lees, Sue

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Penguin??Books

Explores the disciplinary processes which constrict women's lives with reference to sexual reputation. The text draws on the work of Foucault to explore the way that power functions as a form of self surveillance, and operates through social practices which serve to legitimize male violence.

Ruling Passions: Sexual Violence, Reputation and the Law

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Open Univ Pr

Policing Sexual Assault provides a detailed account of current police practice in the UK in response to sexual assault. The authors use case studies and interviews to find out why when the number of rape cases has almost trebled since 1985, the proportion of cases resulting in a conviction has dropped from 24% to 8.6%. Chapters cover:  an overview of existing research police culture police recording practices the role of the Crime Prosecution Service male rape analysis of the judicial process interviews with complainants and first-hand accounts of their experiences proposals for reform. The authors place their findings within the context of theoretical debates about domestic and sexual violence and examine the gap between official condemnations of male violence, as enshrined in law, and the realities of the victims' (male and female) experiences - whereby the violence is too often condoned.

Policing Sexual Assault

Gregory, Jeanne

Routledge

In this title, Sue Lees explodes the myths about rape that permeate popular opinion, the press, and the legal system. Based on research involving victims' accounts of their experiences, the analysis of police reporting practices, and the monitoring of Crown Court trials, Sue Lees describes the way women are encouraged to report rape only then to be intimidated by their assailants and see them walk free. She draws on survivors' voices to describe how rapes occur and the characteristics of typical rapists. Citing reforms in other countries, she argues the case for further radical reforms to reverse the imbalances of the judicial process and to create a system that will provide justice for victims without jeopardizing the rights of defendants.

Carnal Knowledge: Rape on Trial

Psychology & Counseling

Womens Pr Ltd

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