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Sexual citizens : a landmark study of sex, power, and assault on campus / Jennifer S. Hirsch & Shamus Khan.

by Hirsch, Jennifer S.

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W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.

Rape in universities and colleges -- United States.

College students -- Crimes against -- United States.

Campus violence -- United States.

9781324001706 (hc.)

xxxiv, 395 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-372) and index.

Introduction: a new approach -- Sexual assaults -- Under one roof -- The toxic campus brew -- What is sex for? -- Consent -- Acts of entitlement, self-absorption, and violence -- The power of the group -- The aftermath -- Gender and beyond -- Conclusions: forming sexual citizens -- Appendix A: methodology -- Appendix B: tables.

The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. Research has shown that by the time they graduate, as many as one in three women and almost one in six men will have been sexually assaulted. But why is sexual assault such a common feature of college life? And what can be done to prevent it? Drawing on the Sexual Health Initiative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) at Columbia University, the most comprehensive study of sexual assault on a campus to date, Jennifer S. Hirsch and Shamus Khan present an entirely new framework that emphasizes sexual assault's social roots -- transcending current debates about consent, predators in a hunting ground, and the dangers of hooking up.

Khan, Shamus Rahman.

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