Performing Heteronormativity: The Discourse of the College Hook up Culture and Sexuality

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https://doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2020.240

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College Hook Up Culture, Slut Discourse, Heteronormativity, Performance, Spitting Game

Abstract

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.

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2020-03-11

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Toprak, Z. (2020). Performing Heteronormativity: The Discourse of the College Hook up Culture and Sexuality. CINEJ Cinema Journal, 8(1), 124–140. https://doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2020.240

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2020): Winter 2020

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