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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR LESLIE C. BELL’S HARD TO GET

“While popular portrayals of women and sex are glossy, voyeuristic, simplified, unemotional, or trite, Hard to Get offers rarely heard detailed stories told with emotional resonance and connection to women’s full lives and selves. Bell has made a superb contribution to our understanding about how women navigate sexuality in young adulthood in an era when they no longer must be married, and thus she has enlightened our understanding of women’s social, sexual, and psychological lives.”

—Karin A. Martin, author of Puberty, Sexuality, and the Self: Boys and Girls at Adolescence

“Can today’s young women be independent and sexual agents while also satisfying their relational needs for intimacy? Bell believes that they can, and insightfully uses women’s stories to reveal the inner and outer barriers to having it all.”

—Paula England, New York University

“Bell offers a profoundly original and important argument about why—despite gains in education and employment—young women in America continue to be shortchanged in sex and intimacy. And she gives us a new, compelling vision of what it would mean for them to attain true sexual liberation.”

—Amy Schalet, author of Not under My Roof: Parents, Teens, and the Culture of Sex

“Hard to Get is a brilliant intervention into recent debates about women’s sexuality. While theoretically sophisticated, the book is so beautifully written that it is hard to put down. Therapists, sexuality scholars, and young women will find this book a powerful tool in making sense of the pleasures and dissatisfactions of young adulthood today.”

—Elizabeth A. Armstrong, University of Michigan

“Female sexuality provides endless fascination; but how do actual young women find happiness in sex and love? Leslie Bell gives us an up-close look at twenty-something women at a cultural moment when they have more freedom than ever before, but their desires—sexual and relational—continue to confound. Bell navigates this complex terrain with compassion, keen insight, and an eye to social change.”

—Daphne de Marneffe, author of Maternal Desire: On Children, Love, and the Inner Life