Blurred Lines

Rethinking Sex, Power, & Consent on Campus

Vanessa Grigoriadis

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781328511935
• eBook ISBN:
  9780544702608
• Topic: Sciences sociales
• Subtopic: Histoire sociale

A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front lines. Few places in America have felt the influence of #MeToo more intensely. Indeed, college campuses were in many ways the harbingers of #MeToo. Grigoriadis captures the nature of this cultural reckoning without shying away from its complexity. College women use fresh, smart methods to fight entrenched sexism and sexual assault even as they celebrate their own sexuality as never before. Many "woke" male students are more open to feminism than ever, while others perpetuate the cruelest misogyny. Coexisting uneasily, these students are nevertheless rewriting long-standing rules of sex and power from scratch.
      Eschewing any political agenda, Grigoriadis travels to schools large and small, embedding in their social whirl and talking candidly with dozens of students, as well as to administrators, parents, and researchers.  Blurred Lines is a riveting, indispensable illumination of the most crucial social change on campus in a generation.  
 

Index

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

A

Abbey, Antonia, 154–55

Abramović, Marina, 65, 173

abstinence, 270–71

accountability, 253–56

accusations, 130, 133, 138, 142–45, 238

false, xxiii, xxvii, 72, 132–35, 136, 137–39, 184, 190, 256–60, 266

reporting, 289

accused, the, 129–46

confusion of, 129–30, 224–25, 228

cost of defense for, 141–42

countersuits by, 139–42

defense of, 132–35

impact of accusations on, xxiii

mothers of, 136–39, 142–46, 262–68

perspective of, 227–28

predators, 150–52

risk of accusations against, 131–32

serial offenders, 147–48, 150–52

shaming, 149–50

support groups for, 136–39

sympathy for, 190

traumatization of, 190–91

acquaintance culture, 58–60

acquaintance rape, xx–xxi

activism, anti-assault, xxix, 88–90, 91–92, 94, 95–96, 108–12, 216, 229, 280–81

against fraternities, 235–43

sexual empowerment and, 15

Title IX and, 80–83

at Wesleyan, 5–7

activism, men’s rights, 266–68

ACT UP, 236

Adult Swim network, 40

affirmative consent, xxix, 184, 225, 279. See also consent

advocating for, 288

Yiannopoulos on, 266

Against Our Will (Brownmiller), 72

agency, sexual, 126–28

agender, 12

Ailes, Roger, 150

alcohol, xxviii, 200–201

accountability of men vs. women and, 140, 153

binge drinking, xix, 47–48, 200–201, 287

at Dartmouth, 294–95

in fraternities, 110–12, 155–57, 231–32

gang rape and, 159–66

incapacitation from, 38

predators and, 154–55

prevalence of, 47

recommendations on, 2...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Author’s Note
• “Mattress Girl”
• Introduction: Orientation
• Planet College
• My Alma Mater
• Number-One Party School
• A Boy’s Life
• Nonconsensual
• Pallas Athena
• Carnal Knowledge
• “Rape Girls”
• Consent Theory 101
• The Accused
• Guilty
• The Man
• Ceci N’est Pas un Viol
• The Fixer
• College Programs: What Works?
• Phoebe
• Down with the Frats
• Battleground
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Recommendations
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author
• Connect with HMH