Thinking Straight: The Power, Promise and Paradox of Heterosexuality

ISBN-13: 9780415932738 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 254 str.

Chrys Ingraham

Opis

What is heterosexuality? In recent years, scholars in all fields have spent so much time defining homosexuality, that the nature of heterosexuality goes unexplored. In White Wedding, Chrys Ingraham began to ask the important questions about the nature of the institution--how was heterosexuality invented, naturalized, normalized, and institutionalized? These questions begin to define the field that Ingraham has dubbed 'Critical Heterosexual Studies'. In Thinking Straight, a collection of original essays will unravel the current heterosexual scene. The collection will be broken into three parts: one on power, one on paradox, and one on promise. Topics will include: cartoons and heterosexuality; weddings; proms; citizenship; marriage penalties; mermaids and myth.

Recenzje

"Thinking Straight is a valuable contribution to critical heterosexual studies, that difficult work of keeping different-sex sexualities in social and historical focus as it questions all those traditional assumptions about heterosexuality's natural, normal, universal, and eternal character." -- Jonathan Ned Katz, author of The Invention of Heterosexuality

Spis treści

Introduction: Thinking Straight, Chrys Ingraham; Part 1 The Power; Chapter 1 Sexuality,Heterosexuality, and Gender Hierarchy: Getting Our Priorities Straight, Stevi Jackson; Chapter 2 CHAPTER 2 From the Polluted Homosexual to the Normal Gay: Changing Patterns of Sexual Regulation in America, Steven Seidman; Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 Claiming Citizenship? Sexuality,Citizenship, and Lesbian Feminist Theory, Diane Richardson; Chapter 4 CHAPTER 4 The Transformation of Heterosexism and its Paradoxes, Chris Brickell; Part 2 The Paradox; Chapter 5 CHAPTER 5 Crossing the Borders of Gendered Sexuality:Queer Masculinities of Straight Men, Robert Heasley; Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6 White Heterosexuality: A Romance of the Straight Man's Burden, Mason Stokes; Chapter 7 CHAPTER 7 The Mermaid and the Heterosexual Imagination, Laurie Essig; Part 3 The Promise; Chapter 8 CHAPTER 8 “Someday My Prince Will Come”: Disney, the Heterosexual Imaginary and Animated Film, Carrie L. Cokely; Chapter 9 CHAPTER 9 Out ofWedlock:Why Some Poor Women Reject Marriage, Margaret Walsh; Chapter 10 CHAPTER 10 The Production of Heterosexuality at the High School Prom, Amy L. Best; Chapter 11 CHAPTER 11 Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: The Filming of “Wedding Advice”, Karen Sosnoski; Steven Seidman Essay; About the Contributors;

O autorze

Chrys Ingraham is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Women's Studies at Russell Sage College. She is author of White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture, and co-editor (with Rosemary Hennessy) of Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Race, Difference and Women's Lives, both published by Routledge).