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Riverhead
February 2007
On Sale: February 15, 2007
304 pages ISBN: 1594489386 EAN: 9781594489389 Hardcover
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Self-Help Relationships
An eye-opening examination of the hookup culture, seen
through the personal experiences of high school-and
college-age women who confront the hard lessons of dating,
love, and sex. We're living in an increasingly sexualized world, and it's
the young-particularly young women-who must deal with the
consequences. Kids are having more sexual contact than ever,
and at an earlier age. They call it "hooking up." But what
is "hooking up"? According to Laura Sessions Stepp, a
reporter at The Washington Post, hooking up eludes a neat
definition. It can be anything from an innocent kiss to sexual. In Unhooked, Stepp follows three groups of young women (one
in high school, one each at Duke and George Washington
universities). She sat with them in class, socialized with
them, listened to them talk, and came away with some
disturbing insights, including that hooking up carries with
it no obligation on either side. Relationships and romance
are seen as messy and time-consuming, and love is
postponed-or worse, seen as impossible. Some young women can
handle this, but many can't, and they're being
battered-physically and emotionally-by the new dating
landscape. The result is a generation of young people
stymied by relationships and unsure where to turn for help.
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