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.
UnhookedForeword
Introduction
Section One
Hooking Up: What It Means (Jamie's Story)
Section Two
What It Looks Like, What It Feels Like High School (Stories of Sienna, Anna and Mieka)
College (Nicole's Story)
Section Three
How We Got There Feminism (Shaida's Story)
Parents and the Greenhouse Effect (Cleo's Story)
The College Environment (Victoria's Story)
Section Four
Hooking Up: Why It Matters (Alicia's Story)
A Letter to Mothers and Daughters
Afterword to the Paperback Edition
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
"Riveting." -Patricia Cornwell, New York Times bestselling author
"On target and thought provoking." -Atlantic Monthly
"Educational-and almost always shocking...ought to come with a parental advisory." -St. Louis Post Dispatch
"Stepp's work is remarkable." -The Baltimore Sun
"Required reading for all young women-and their parents." -Hilda Hutcherson, M.D., author of What Your Mother Never Told You About Sex
