From Single to Serious: Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality on American Evangelical Campuses (The American Campus)

From Single to Serious: Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality on American Evangelical Campuses (The American Campus)

Dana M. Malone
$38.95
Publication Date: January 31st, 2018
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
9780813587882
Pages:
256

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. 
 

About the Author

DANA M. MALONE is an independent scholar and consultant in the Philadelphia area.

 

Praise for From Single to Serious: Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality on American Evangelical Campuses (The American Campus)

"Sometimes insider information makes all the difference. Dana Malone does not disappoint in this carefully analytic description of the relationship culture on evangelical Protestant campuses. Malone painstakingly describes the dating—and sometimes mating—rituals that characterize this American subculture. It is, as she says, about navigating 'a minefield of contradictory messages,' rules, norms, and codes. Conventional ideas of masculinity and femininity are certainly not dead. The book reminds me of the ways in which American youth aren't just polarized politically, but culturally around the oldest of institutions—marriage—and the most primal of practices, sex."
 
— Mark Regnerus

"Christian college and university administrators, staff, faculty, and student leaders will all benefit from considering the results of Malone’s study."
— Christianity Today

From “Hello” to Down the Aisle: Christian College Students Share Their Stories of Finding Lasting Love by Jenell Paris Christianity Today review
— Black Christian News

"Selected New Books on Higher Education: How to Ease the Way for Transgender and First-Generation Students" by Ruth Hammond mention
— Chronicle of Higher Education

"New Books Network - New Books in Gender Studies" interview with Dr. Dana Malone
https://newbooksnetwork.com/dana-m-malone-from-single-to-serious-relationships-gender-and-sexuality-on-american-evangelical-campuses-rutgers-up-2018/
— New Books Network - New Books in Gender Studies

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