1. Introduction: In Search of Good Sexual-Developmental Pathways for Adolescent Girls (Lisa M. Diamond)
Setting the tone for the volume, this introduction outlines the meaning and importance of positive female adolescent sexuality and outlines the unique contributions that the volume’s authors make to this topic.

2. Integrating Hormones and Other Biological Factors into a Developmental Systems Model of Adolescent Female Sexuality (Carolyn Tucker Halpern)
The author sets out a developmental systems approach to understanding interactions between biological and social influences on adolescent female sexuality.

3. Puberty and Girls’ Sexuality: Why Hormones Are Not the Complete Answer (Julia A. Graber, Lisa M. Sontag)
The complex range of psychological and social impacts of puberty on girls’ self-concepts, sexuality, and body image is the focus of this chapter.

4. Positive Sexual Communication and Socialization in the Parent-Adolescent Context (Eva S. Lefkowitz, Tara M. Stoppa)
The authors examine processes of parent-child communication about sexuality and how parents relay information about sexual attitudes and values explicitly and implicitly.

5. Uncommonly Good: Exploring How Mass Media May Be a Positive Influence on Young Women’s Sexual Health and Development (L. Monique Ward, Kyla M. Day, Marina Epstein)
This review of multiple media influences on adolescent girls’ sexuality demonstrates how media can reinforce either empowering or stereotypical images of and messages about female sexuality.

6. In a Different Position: Conceptualizing Female Adolescent Sexuality Development Within Compulsory Heterosexuality (Deborah L. Tolman)
The author argues that positive approaches to adolescent female sexuality need to focus more critical attention on how ideologies promoting compulsory heterosexuality shape girls’ experiences and the way researchers study these experiences.

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