Unhooked by Laura Sessions Stepp
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 CornwellFrom 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.
Laura Sessions Stepp is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The Washington Post's Style section, where she focuses on teenagers and young adults. Her writing has appeared in Parent, Child, Working Mother, Reader's Digest, and Harvard's Nieman Reports, among other publications. She has been a resident scholar at the National Academy of Sciences twice and a member of the United States Senate. The board of advisors of the Casey Journalism Center on Children and Families at the University of Maryland is chaired by the Surgeon General's Healthy People 2000 panel on adolescence. Stepp and her husband live outside of Washington, D.C., with their three grown children.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594482847 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594482845 |
| Title | Unhooked |
| Author | Laura Sessions Stepp |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2008-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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