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Using a cross-cultural perspective, The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity draws on ethnographic data to examine how heteronormativity is constructed and operates in diverse contexts.
List of contents
Introduction: Heteronormativity in/as the Everyday
Sertaç Sehlikoglu & Frank G. Karioris
Part I: Mapping the Norms
Chapter One: "Tell me, What Made You Think You Were Normal?": How Practice will Always Outrun Theory and Why We All Need to Get Out More"
Caroline Osella
Chapter Two: Ethnological Knowledge Production and Inventing "Heterosexuality": Tradition of Premarital Sleeping Together (XIX - the beginning of XX century)
Maria Mayerchyk
Chapter Three: Gendering Men: Commutes, Spaces, and Publicness
Erol Saglam
Part II: Institutional Formations
Chapter Four: Knowledge and Experience In Relationship Counselling Practices? Re-Thinking Heteronormativity
Marjo Kolehmainen
Chapter Five: Love, Marriage, and Normative Orders: Heterosexual Relationships for Post-Agrarian India
Rama Srinivasan
Part III: Neoliberal Times
Chapter Six: Islamic Men in Suits and The Invisible Becoming in Turkey
Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Chapter Seven: Hierarchical Intimacies. Western Subjectivities, and Multiple Heterosexuailties in Neoliberal Dubai
Amelie Le Renard
Part IV: Transing & Crossing
Chapter Eight: Transing-normativities: understanding hijra communes as queer homes
Ina Goel
Chapter Nine: Loving travestis: a lady in the bed, a whore in the living room
Fernanda Belizario
Chapter Ten: Queer Family's Longing for Belonging - Heteronormativity Beyond Anti-Normativity
Yv E. Nay
Bibliography
About the Authors
About the author
Sertaç Sehlikoglu is research fellow at Pembroke College and affiliated lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology and the faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Cambridge.
Frank G. Karioris is visiting lecturer of gender, sexuality, and women's studies at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the Center for Critical Gender Studies at the American University of Central Asia.
Summary
Using a cross-cultural perspective, The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity draws on ethnographic data to examine how heteronormativity is constructed and operates in diverse contexts.
