| Description |
1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction : thinking straight / Chrys Ingraham -- The power ; Sexuality, heterosexuality and gender hierarchy : getting our priorities straight / Stevi Jackson -- From polluted homosexual to the normal gay : changing patterns of sexual regulation in America / Steven Seidman -- Claiming citizenship? : sexuality, citizenship and lesbian feminist theory / Diane Richardson -- The transformation of heterosexism and its paradoxes / Chris Brickell -- The paradox ; Crossing the borders of gendered sexuality : queer masculinities of straight men / Robert Heasley -- White heterosexuality : a romance of the straight man's burden / Mason Stokes -- The mermaid and the heterosexual imagination / Laurie Essig -- The promise ; "Some day my prince will come" : Disney, the heterosexual imaginary and animated film / Carrie L. Cokely -- Out of wedlock : why some poor women reject marriage / Margaret Walsh -- The production of heterosexuality at the high school prom / Amy L. Best -- Speak now or forever hold your peace : the filming of "Wedding advice" / Karen Sosnoski |
| Summary |
Until the late 1990s, few had pursued a critical examination of institutionalized heterosexuality, one that asks, "What interests are served by the way we have organized and given meaning to heterosexuality?" This volume of essays contains important and pivotal works in the emerging field of critical heterosexual studies. From across disciplines and international locations, these works interrogate the meanings and practices associated with straightness--the historical, social, political, cultural, and economic dominance of institutionalized heterosexuality. By examining the power, the promise, and the paradox associated with 'thinking' straight and straightness, these essays provide insight into the history, materiality, meaning making systems, legitimizing practices, concealed contradictions, and the interests of power served by the continued operation of institutionalized heterosexuality |
| Bibliography |
Includes appendix, bibliographical references at chapter ends, and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Heterosexuality.
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Heterosexism.
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Social stratification.
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Homophobia.
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Sexual orientation -- United States -- Public opinion
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heterosexuality.
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social stratification.
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Heterosexism
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Heterosexuality
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Homophobia
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Sexual orientation -- Public opinion
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Social stratification
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ingraham, Chrys, 1947- editor.
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| LC no. |
2004008749 |
| ISBN |
9780203006368 |
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0203006364 |
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1135954461 |
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9781135954468 |
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8180561429 |
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9788180561429 |
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1280102926 |
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9781280102929 |
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