Going All the Way: Teenage Girls' Tales of Sex, Romance, and Pregnancy
by Sharon Thompson
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Author: Sharon ThompsonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-09-30
ISBN: 0809015994
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Hill and Wang
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Book Review: A girl is not a girl ...
Summary: 4 Stars
I think the most interesting observation made by Sharon Thompson in Going All the Way is the class-based diversity among teenaged girls. At one extreme we find the poor girls whose prospects for the future are quite limited with regard to education, occupation, and income. These are the girls who are looking for love, for meaning in the form of a man who will care for them, father their children, and be a life-long soul mate. Given that their options are few, they are vulnerable, open to sexual usury, and often become single mothers when their lover moves on. Young women such as this are indirectly victimized by a social system that prompts prospective husbands and fathers to prove themselves faithless and unreliable because they can't find work which provides adequate compensation to support a family.
At the other extreme, we find the affluent, upper middle class girls. Their futures are replete with educational opportunity, and their occupational and income prospects are excellent. They don't need love and caring with the desperation of the poor girl. They know how to use sex and love to satisfy their needs and enhance their prospects. They are in charge of the intimacy in their lives. Are they users? Perhaps. But at least they won't be used, left on their own with a child to support.
Interestingly, the reader has to go half way through the book before someone experiences an orgasm. It comes in response to a lesbian encounter. Nothing wrong with this, but the author off-handedly,attributes this first instance of sexual release to the absence of fear of pregnancy. Surely there are other ways to accomplish this. In any case, it's an interesting book.
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