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...

Presents a study of our culture's obsession with weddings. This book examines popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and children's toys, and shows the pervasive influence of weddings in our culture and the important role they play in maintaining the romance of heterosexuality.