Thinking Straight
The Power, Promise and Paradox of Heterosexuality
Edited by Chrys Ingraham
Published November 16th 2004 by Routledge – 256 pages
Description
This collection of original essays will unravel the current heterosexual scene in two parts: one on rights and privileges, the other on popular culture. Topics covered include weddings, proms, citizenship, marriage penalties, cartoons, mermaids and myth.
Reviews
"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
Author Bio
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).
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Name: Thinking Straight: The Power, Promise and Paradox of Heterosexuality (Paperback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by Chrys Ingraham. This collection of original essays will unravel the current heterosexual scene in two parts: one on rights and privileges, the other on popular culture. Topics covered include weddings, proms, citizenship, marriage penalties, cartoons, mermaids and...
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