Thinking Straight

The Power, Promise and Paradox of Heterosexuality
Herausgeber: Ingraham, Chrys

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 225mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780415932738
• ISBN-10: 0415932734
• Artikelnr.: 21759973

Autorenporträt

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 inPopular Culture, and co-editor (with Rosemary Hennessy) of Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Race,Difference and Women's Lives, both published by Routledge).

Inhaltsangabe

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;