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Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This is an edited collection of new material by some of the top scholars in the area of heterosexual studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;...
