a Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA.
b Department of Sociology , University of South Carolina , Columbia , SC , USA.
Cult Health Sex. 2019 Feb;21(2):160-174. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2018.1459844. Epub 2018 Apr 24.
While previous scholarship on the sexual practices of college students in the USA has explored how the co-constitution of whiteness, economic privilege and gender inequality are central to 'hooking up', less attention has been paid to how the sexual culture of predominantly white universities shape Black college women's sexual practices. In this article, we use an intersectional theoretical framework informed by Black feminism to analyse interviews with Black, cisgender, heterosexual women, aged 18-22, attending a university in the south-eastern USA. We explore how they interpret the university's sexual culture and in turn how that informs their sexual decision-making. We find that the intersection of racism and sexism limits Black college women's sexual partner options and leads them to pursue sexual relationships outside the university setting. While most do not engage in committed romantic relationships with off-campus partners, they do engage in a range of strategies to protect their social, emotional and sexual well-being. The study findings expand the scholarship on hook-up culture by centring the narratives of a group often excluded from the literature.
虽然之前有关于美国大学生性行为的研究探讨了种族、经济特权和性别不平等是如何共同构成“ hookup”（随意发生性关系）的核心，但对于以白人为主的大学的性文化如何塑造黑人女大学生的性行为，关注较少。在本文中，我们使用交叉理论框架，以黑人女性主义为指导，分析了对 18-22 岁、在东南部一所大学就读的黑人、顺性别、异性恋女性的采访。我们探讨了她们如何解读大学的性文化，以及这种文化如何影响她们的性决策。我们发现，种族主义和性别歧视的交叉限制了黑人女大学生的性伴侣选择，并导致她们在大学之外寻求性关系。虽然大多数人不会与校外伴侣建立稳定的恋爱关系，但她们确实会采取一系列策略来保护自己的社交、情感和性健康。这项研究的结果通过关注经常被文献排除在外的群体的叙述，扩展了关于 hookup 文化的研究。
