American Hookup The New Culture of Sex on Campus [Paperback]

Today's crucial book for your teen's library&as relevant for high schoolers as for college students.A myth-busting, eye-popping, and important work of social research. Lisa Wade spent years observing hookup culture on college campuses across the United States and analyzing all the good data available. The result is the best book about sex on campus, bar none.Intelligent, sympathetic, and unflinching.Lisa Wade pulls back the curtain on campus culture and reveals the tableau of racial, class, and gender inequality on which the not-really-so-pervasive phenomenon of student hookups is playing out. If you want to understand what is happening on campus today, this book is not only excellent; its necessary.An urgently needed and well-researched front-line report on hookup culture.&This book is a welcome wake-up call to the nation.Lisa Wade investigates the biggest misconceptions about casual sex on college campusesand tries to reach an understanding that more accurately reflects realities about gender, race, and class.[Wade invites us to consider the nuances of hookup culture that have formerly been overlooked or oversimplified, and the result is powerful.An extraordinary window into todays hookup culture among young people. In its pages, you will find incredible insights tying together the history of college campuses, human brain development, and cultural shifts on gender norms to explain how young people conduct their sexual relationships. Working with young people myself, I see what Lisa Wade describes every day. This is an extraordinary and important book.One of the more thoughtful books about the sexual lives of young people in the US today. A must-read for any studentpresent or formerstuck in hookup cultures pressure to put out. Ana Valens,