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How To Trick People Into Reading Your University Press Book

"When people talk about 'hooking up,' they're referring to a subculture with a complex set of rules and expectations. Not surprisingly, most of what they know about student 'hookup' culture comes from alarmist news reports of 'risky sex' and movies like American Pie 3, not serious scholarship. In her new book, Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus (New York University Press, 2008), Bogle wields the tools of the sociologist, employing in-depth interviews with students and graduates from two unnamed universities — one a large East Coast public university, the other a smaller Roman Catholic institution in the Northeast — and placing the culture of hooking up in a historical context." [Inside Higher Ed]

5:30 PM on Tue Jan 29 2008
By Pareene
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dadoorunrun at 05:40 PM on 01/29/08
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Is Bogle the new Moby? Only one name??
belltolls at 05:41 PM on 01/29/08
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So Bogle is not a search engine? I need to read this story again. I have no idea what people mean by "hooking up." I thought it was a drug thing. Or a skydiving thing.
Colonel Mustard at 05:41 PM on 01/29/08
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That chick has some serious man hands.
the supergoddess at 05:48 PM on 01/29/08
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nice tags pareene. way to work the pageviews.
ninety_nine at 05:59 PM on 01/29/08
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Isn't this the woman that was writing those really bad, two years to late posts on getting famous?
rachmanut at 06:04 PM on 01/29/08
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I liked that book better the first time, when Tom Wolfe wrote it.
CaptainFantastic at 06:11 PM on 01/29/08
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What is dating?
vandusen at 06:29 PM on 01/29/08
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Sociology must be like anthropology, with the subject matter whittled down to those who have seen "American Pie 3"
magneticfields at 07:00 PM on 01/29/08
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So 'hooking up' is some kind of game where guys hook bras onto their boyfriends? Why?
eXXX at 07:21 PM on 01/29/08
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It's so precious that the straights think hooking up is a new idea.
mysweetmango at 07:53 PM on 01/29/08
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@eXXX: It's precious that anyone thinks hooking up is a new and book-length idea. Same ish with a different name, since the dawn of man.
the cajun boy at 07:57 PM on 01/29/08
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why the hate for university press books? believe it or not, editors at major publishing houses lack good judgment sometimes. my favorite book of all time, john kennedy toole's a confederacy of dunces, was a university press(LSU) book that statrted with an initial print run of 1000 copies.
LawAndDisorder at 08:35 PM on 01/29/08
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huh, that was the exact title of my ex-roommates senior thesis. for a second i thought she got published. too bad, it was pretty good actually...
ginger rant at 09:20 PM on 01/29/08
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@the cajun boy: Damn straight. University Presses will save us all when Bertelsman (or whoeverthefuck) buys whatever paltry few publishing houses are left. Plus University Presses are bankrolled by--no lie--UNIVERSITIES. Which have MONEY. Your parents' MONEY. Let's give it to WRITERS WHO WRITE BOOKS.
econdave at 09:26 PM on 01/29/08
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The semiotics of hooking up? Is that like the politics of dancing? The politics of (ooo) feeling good?