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I wanted to share the newest production of MEF's -- FLIRTING WITH DANGER -- which examines the way in popular culture and media messages impact how we think about issues such as power, pleasure, danger, agency, and victimization. 

More information is below.  

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Flirting with Danger
A riveting new documentary explores popular culture, relationships & power

"This bracing film will make you squirm -- and provoke exactly the conversation our society needs to be having -- with both young women and young men."
- Dr. Michael Kimmel | Author of "Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men"

"This film is at once a wake-up call, asking feminists to rethink the ways we frame victimization and power, and a poignant exploration of the real dilemmas young women face as they try to craft meaningful sexual lives."
- Amy C. Wilkins, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado

"A riveting film. "Flirting with Danger" is destined to be a classic pedagogical tool."
- Walter S. DeKeseredy, Ph.D. | Professor of Criminology at University of Ontario Institute of Technology

 

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 and hookups.

Featuring dramatizations of interviews Phillips conducted with hundreds of young women, Flirting with Danger examines how the wider culture's frequently contradictory messages about pleasure, danger, agency, and victimization 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.

To watch the trailer & for more info: http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=250

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