American Hookup - The New Culture of Sex on Campus

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?"

About the author

Lisa Wade is a professor at Tulane University with appointments in Sociology, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Newcomb Institute. An accomplished scholar, award-winning teacher, and public sociologist, she is well known for delivering conversational yet compelling translations of sociological theory and research. She’s the author of Terrible Magnificent Sociology and American Hookup: The New Culture of Sex on Campus.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Wade, Wade Lisa
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2017
• EAN: 9780393285093
• ISBN: 978-0-393-28509-3
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 244 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 480 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Sociology: sexual relations, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Age groups: adolescents, Higher education, tertiary education, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Sexual Behaviour, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher