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American Hookup

By Lisa Wade

American Hookup

By Lisa Wade

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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?"
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
304
Release Date:
2017-01-10
Publication Date:
2017-01-10
Publisher:
Blue Guides Limited of London
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
039328509X
ISBN13:
9780393285093
Weight:
484 g
Height:
159 cm
Width:
244 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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