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Unhooked. How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both

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Manufacturer: Riverhead Trade
Author: Laura Sessions Stepp
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 2008-02-05
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Label: Riverhead Trade
Number Of Pages: 336

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Editorial Review
Features a new Afterword for this edition. A controversial look at today's sexual hook-up culture, and "[a] book...you won't stop talking about."-Patricia Cornwell

From the front lines of today's sexual battlefield comes an eye-opening examination of the hookup culture, seen through the personal experiences of the teenage girls and young women who live it-and who are left unprepared for its consequences. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author presents a disturbing and enlightening indictment of the hookup culture, the social forces that contribute to it, and what can be done to change it.
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Unhooked

2008-06-29
Taking as her focus group young women between the ages of 14 and 22, Laura Sessions Stepp explores the relatively recent culture of "hooking up" in Unhooked. Using a case study model, augmented by her own theories and those of "experts" and "Science," Stepp retells the sexual experiences of several mostly white, upper middle-class women at Northeast schools and extrapolates a whole lot of assumptions about how all American women learn about and pursue their own sexual desires.

While the landscape of gender, sex, and power is rapidly changing for women growing up in a post-feminist 21st century and certainly deserves scholarly attention, Stepp's analysis is never nuanced or encompassing enough to offer a compelling argument. Ultimately, she suggests a reversion to traditionally defined gender roles as the only thing capable of restoring the balance of power between the sexes. More worthwhile would have been suggestions for the possibility of what gender, and the role sex plays in that construction, can be.

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