1st Edition
Thinking Straight The Power, Promise and Paradox of Heterosexuality
Edited By Chrys Ingraham
Copyright 2005
254 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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;
Biography
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).
"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
