American hookup : the new culture of sex on campus / Lisa Wade.
2018
HQ27 .W33 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
American hookup : the new culture of sex on campus / Lisa Wade.
ISBN
9780393355536 (paperback)
0393355535 (paperback)
0393355535 (paperback)
Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2018].
Language
English
Description
304 pages ; 21 cm
Call Number
HQ27 .W33 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.70973
Summary
"The hookup is now part of college life. Yet the drunken encounter we always hear about tells only a fraction of the story. Rising above misinformation and moralizing, Lisa Wade offers the definitive account of this new sexual culture and demonstrates that the truth is both more heartening and more harrowing than we thought. Offering invaluable insights for parents, educators, and students, Wade situates hookup culture within the history of sexuality, the evolution of higher education, and the unfinished feminist revolution. Using new research, she maps out a punishing emotional landscape marked by unequal pleasures, competition for status, and sexual violence. She discovers that the most privileged students tend to like hookup culture the most, and she considers its effects on racial and sexual minorities, students who "opt out," and those who participate ambivalently. Accessible and open-minded, compassionate and brutally honest, American Hookup explains where we are and how we got here, asking not 'How do we go back?' but 'Where do we go from here?'"--Hardcover jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The new culture of sex
Hooking up, a how-to
How sex became fun
Sex in drunkworld
Opting out
Opting in
Careless and carefree
Unequal pleasures
Wanting to be wanted
Flirting with danger
Moving on
Conclusion: Changing the culture.
Hooking up, a how-to
How sex became fun
Sex in drunkworld
Opting out
Opting in
Careless and carefree
Unequal pleasures
Wanting to be wanted
Flirting with danger
Moving on
Conclusion: Changing the culture.