What’s Gender Got to Do With It? Sexual Double Standards and Power in Heterosexual College Hookups

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 754-765

  Kettrey, Heather Hensman ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLEGE; COLLEGE STUDENT; FEMALE; GENDER; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SOCIAL LIFE; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; MORALITY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MORALS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREJUDICE; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84963570132     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: 15598519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2016.1145181     Document Type: Article

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