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Overview

Deborah L. Tolman is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States. Their research encompasses several interconnected subfields, primarily Clinical Psychology and Gender Studies, supplemented by work in General Health Professions and Literature and Literary Theory.

Their scholarly contributions focus on topics such as Gender Roles and Identity Studies, Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health, Eating Disorders and Behaviors, and Media Influence and Health.

Recent publications by Deborah L. Tolman include:

  • "Pathways to Pleasure and Protection: Exploring Embodiment, Desire, and Entitlement to Pleasure as Predictors of Black and White Young Women's Sexual Agency," 2020, Psychology of Women Quarterly
  • "Opening the Black Box: A primer for the Listening Guide method of narrative inquiry," 2021, Qualitative Psychology
  • "Boys' Internalized Appearance-Related Norms from Different Socializers Uniquely, Negatively Relate to Wellbeing and Gender Beliefs," 2023, The Journal of Early Adolescence
  • "Asking an Unasked Question and the Radical Act of Listening: A Story About Relationships," 2024, Harvard Educational Review

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Jennifer F. Chmielewski
  • Christin P. Bowman
  • James Christopher Head
  • Matthew G. Nielson
  • Carol Lynn Martin

Deborah L. Tolman often publishes in venues such as Psychology of Women Quarterly, Qualitative Psychology, The Journal of Early Adolescence, and Harvard Educational Review, indicating a concentration on interdisciplinary approaches bridging psychology, gender studies, and adolescence.

Best Publications

  • Dilemmas of desire

    Deborah L. Tolman

  • Dilemmas of desire : teenage girls talk about sexuality

    Deborah L. Tolman

  • Normative Sexuality Development in Adolescence: A Decade in Review, 2000–2009

    Deborah L. Tolman;Sara I. McClelland

  • DOING DESIRE Adolescent Girls' Struggles for/with Sexuality

    Deborah L. Tolman

  • Women, Girls & Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance

    Carol Gilligan;Annie G. Rogers;Deborah L. Tolman

  • From sex to sexuality: exposing the heterosexual script on primetime network television.

    Janna L. Kim;C. Lynn Sorsoli;Katherine Collins;Bonnie A. Zylbergold

  • Gender matters: Constructing a model of adolescent sexual health

    Deborah L. Tolman;Meg I. Striepe;Tricia Harmon

  • To Be Seen and Not Heard: Femininity Ideology and Adolescent Girls’ Sexual Health

    Emily A. Impett;Deborah Schooler;Deborah L. Tolman

  • Looking Good, Sounding Good: Femininity Ideology and Adolescent Girls' Mental Health:

    Deborah L. Tolman;Emily A. Impett;Allison J. Tracy;Alice Michael

  • Female Adolescents, Sexual Empowerment and Desire: A Missing Discourse of Gender Inequity

    Deborah L. Tolman

  • Desegregating Sexuality Research: Cultural and Biological Perspectives on Gender and Desire

    Deborah L. Tolman;Lisa M. Diamond

  • The Adolescent Masculinity Ideology in Relationships Scale Development and Validation of a New Measure for Boys

    Judy Y. Chu;Michelle V. Porche;Deborah L. Tolman

  • DIMENSIONS OF DESIRE Bridging Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in a Study of Female Adolescent Sexuality

    Deborah L. Tolman;Laura A. Szalacha

  • Late Adolescent Girls’ Sexual Experiences and Sexual Satisfaction

    Emily A. Impett;Deborah L. Tolman

  • From subjects to subjectivities : a handbook of interpretive and participatory methods

    Deborah L. Tolman;Mary L. Brydon-Miller

  • Narratives of Desire in Mid-Age Women With and Without Arousal Difficulties

    Lori A. Brotto;Julia R. Heiman;Deborah L. Tolman

  • The Adolescent Femininity Ideology Scale: Development and Validation of a New Measure for Girls

    Deborah L. Tolman;Michelle V. Porche

  • Girls' Relationship Authenticity and Self-Esteem across Adolescence.

    Emily A. Impett;Lynn Sorsoli;Deborah Schooler;James M. Henson

  • In a different position: conceptualizing female adolescent sexuality development within compulsory heterosexuality.

    Deborah L. Tolman

  • Sowing the Seeds of Violence in Heterosexual Relationships: Early Adolescents Narrate Compulsory Heterosexuality

    Deborah L. Tolman;Renée Spencer;Myra Rosen-Reynoso;Michelle V. Porche

Frequent Co-Authors

Emily A. Impett
Emily A. Impett University of Toronto
Lisa M. Diamond
Lisa M. Diamond University of Utah
Renée Spencer
Renée Spencer Boston University
Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan New York University
Julia R. Heiman
Julia R. Heiman Indiana University
Lori A. Brotto
Lori A. Brotto University of British Columbia
Ine Vanwesenbeeck
Ine Vanwesenbeeck Utrecht University

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