Sexual Citizens is based on years of research interviewing and observing college life―with students of different races, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds. 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. 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. But why is sexual assault such a common feature of college life? And what can be done to prevent it? Sexual Citizens provides answers. 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. And for far too many students, that fear is realized. The fear of campus sexual assault has become an inextricable part of the college experience. A groundbreaking study that transforms how we see and address the most misunderstood problem on college campuses: widespread sexual assault.
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