Sexual Fluidity Among Millennial Women: Journeys Across a Shifting Sexual Landscape

Campbell, Alice

Drawing on data collected from over 8,000 millennial women in Australia, this book proposes a new theory of women’s sexual identity that accounts for various sociocultural, historical, and interactional factors that inform women’s sexualities. The author provides a new model for understanding changes in sexual identity among women. Each new chapter focuses on a new aspect of their model: the contemporary context in which women are navigating sexual identities; sexual landscapes and the degree of heteronormativity that characterizes various sexual landscapes; experiences of sexual violence and their potential associations with the sexual trajectories of women; and the potential health and wellbeing implications of changes in sexual identity. Taken as a whole, this text challenges the essentialist framing of the “species” narrative in favor of a more nuanced and socially situated analysis of women’s sexualities throughout the life course.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2023-09-26

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783031136528

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13650-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 232