Performing Heteronormativity

The Discourse of the College Hook up Culture and Sexuality

Bibliographic Data

ID22007250
AuthorsZiya Toprak (0000-0002-1309-4902, Bogaziçi University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume8
Issue1
Pages124-140
Publication date2020-03-11
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCINEJ Cinema Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2158-8724 • E-ISSN: 2159-2411
PublisherUniversity Library System, University of Pittsburgh (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5195/cinej.2020.240
OpenAlexW3011297815
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

This paper focuses on the college hook up culture and slut discourse. I analyze the documentary feature ‘‘Spitting Game: The College Hook Up Culture’’ that present a provocative sense of the hook up culture. Drawing from the narratives of students presented in the documentary, I argue that the college hook up culture is bounded with heteronormativity, where participants of the culture are performing gender positions available to them. I claim that the culture privileges masculinity and necessitates heteronormal performances in order for students to participate. Often ignored by the discourse of campus crime, I argue that women are true victims and they take up sexual performances only with great diffıculty as articulated with slut discourse

Art · Heteronormativity · Hook · Human sexuality · Literature · Masculinity · Media studies · Narrative · Popular culture · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Medicine · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

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