Blurred Lines

Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus

By: Vanessa Grigoriadis

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

A new sexual revolution is sweeping the country, and college students are on the front lines. Few places in America have felt the influence of #MeToo more intensely. Indeed, college campuses were in many ways the harbingers of #MeToo. Grigoriadis captures the nature of this cultural reckoning without shying away from its complexity. College women use fresh, smart methods to fight entrenched sexism and sexual assault even as they celebrate their own sexuality as never before. Many "woke" male students are more open to feminism than ever, while others perpetuate the cruelest misogyny. Coexisting uneasily, these students are nevertheless rewriting long-standing rules of sex and power from scratch.

Eschewing any political agenda, Grigoriadis travels to schools large and small, embedding in their social whirl and talking candidly with dozens of students, as well as to administrators, parents, and researchers. Blurred Lines is a riveting, indispensable illumination of the most crucial social change on campus in a generation.

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Critic reviews

"Grigoriadis puts in the time with students to get them to open up to her, and Blurred Lines shows us the parts of their world that defy easy sloganeering." (New York Times)

very detailed and balanced study of a complex isue

I head an interview with the author on the radio and it piqued my interest. I like that this book touches on several themes that I feel are overlooked on most of what i read on the topic.
-controversy over what constitutes "sexual assault"
-talking to victims of false accusations.
-the role of alcohol in clouding decision making.
-inter generational divide between gen x and millennial feminists in what's considered consensual sex.
I'm so glad that someone brought up these issues.

Fair and exhaustive treatment

For a topic as fraught as sexual assault. This book does an incredible job of examining every side of the issue to educate readers and give a full and complete perspective so readers can reasonably form their own opinions.