American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780393285093)

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?"

Author: Lisa Wade
ISBN-10: 039328509X
ISBN-13: 9780393285093
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 01/10/2017
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 09/01/2016 pg. 78
Publishers Weekly 10/10/2016
Library Journal 10/15/2016 pg. 102
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/2016
Booklist 11/15/2016 pg. 4
BookPage 01/01/2017
School Library Journal 03/01/2017 pg. 155
Library Journal 09/01/2016