Sexual Fluidity Among Millennial Women

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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.
This monograph will be of interestto scholars and students in sociology, gender and sexuality studies, and psychology.
Alice Campbell is a sociologist and research fellow in the Life Course Centre at the University of Queensland. Alice's research examines the ways in which women’s lives are structured by the intersecting forces of heteropatriarchy and neoliberalism, and the production of inequalities by sexual identity and gender.

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.
This monograph will be of interestto scholars and students in sociology, gender and sexuality studies, and psychology.

Draws on data collected from over 8000 women Fills a regional gap in the literature on sexual identity with its specific focus on Australia Integrates a multi-year, socio-spatial analysis of the broader contexts in which changes around sexual identity occurred

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"Millennial women are less likely to identify as exclusively heterosexual than older cohorts, and they are also more likely to change their sexual identity—both toward and away from heterosexuality. What demographic factors are associated with these changes? How is sexual identity change related to mental health and sexual violence? Alice Campbell answers these questions and more using high-quality data and sophisticated analyses. This compelling and theoretically rich book is a must read for scholars of sexuality."(Tony Silva, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Canada)
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