From Single to Serious: Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality on American Evangelical Campuses

From Single to Serious: Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality on American Evangelical Campuses
ISBN-10
0813587905
ISBN-13
9780813587905
Category
Education
Pages
444
Language
English
Published
2018-01-31
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Author
Dana M. Malone

Description

College students hook up and have sex. That is what many students expect to happen during their time at university—it is part of growing up and navigating the relationship scene on most American campuses today. But what do you do when you’re a student at an evangelical university? Students at these schools must negotiate a barrage of religiously imbued undercurrents that impact how they think about relationships, in addition to how they experience and evaluate them. As they work to form successful unions, students at evangelical colleges balance sacred ideologies of purity, holiness, and godliness, while also dealing with more mainstream notions of popularity, the online world, and the appeal of sexual intimacy. In From Single to Serious, Dana M. Malone shines a light on friendship, dating, and, sexuality, in both the ideals and the practical experiences of heterosexual students at U. S. evangelical colleges. She examines the struggles they have in balancing their gendered and religious presentations of self, the expectations of their campus community, and their desire to find meaningful romantic relationships.

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