Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I What Is Sexual Development?
- Children
- Adolescence
- 7 The Diversity of Adolescent Male Sexuality
- 8 Developmental Trajectories and Milestones of Sexual-Minority Youth
- 9 Bad Choices
- 10 From Tightrope to Minefield
- 11 Gender, Class, and Campus Sexual Cultures
- 12 Yellow Fever and Yellow Impotence
- 13 Conceptualizing Sexuality in Research about Trans Youth
- Part II How Do We Study Sexual Development?
- Part III Media, Family, Education
- Index
- References
11 - Gender, Class, and Campus Sexual Cultures
White First-Generation College Students and the Transition to College
from Adolescence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 December 2018
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual Development
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I What Is Sexual Development?
- Children
- Adolescence
- 7 The Diversity of Adolescent Male Sexuality
- 8 Developmental Trajectories and Milestones of Sexual-Minority Youth
- 9 Bad Choices
- 10 From Tightrope to Minefield
- 11 Gender, Class, and Campus Sexual Cultures
- 12 Yellow Fever and Yellow Impotence
- 13 Conceptualizing Sexuality in Research about Trans Youth
- Part II How Do We Study Sexual Development?
- Part III Media, Family, Education
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter brings a sociological lens to the pervasive "hook-up culture" of contemporary US college campuses. Using interview data, from a large US university, with white heterosexual students whose parents did not attend college, the authors explore how "opting out" of hook-up culture had different consequences for the young women in the study than it did for the young men. This chapter contributes to understanding how sexuality is mediated by gender and class and, in turn, how gendered and classed sexuality mediates how students navigate collegiate life.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Sexual DevelopmentChildhood and Adolescence, pp. 221 - 240Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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