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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Chrys Ingraham |
| ISBN: | 0415932726 9780415932721 0415932734 9780415932738 |
| OCLC Number: | 63170277 |
| Description: | ix, 243 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Power -- 1. Sexuality, Heterosexuality and Gender Hierarchy : Getting Our Priorities Straight / Stevi Jackson -- From Polluted Homosexual to the Normal Gay : Changing Patterns of Sexual Regulation in America / Steven Seidman -- 3. Claiming Citizenship? : Sexuality, Citizenship and Lesbian Feminist Theory / Diane Richardson -- 4. The Transformation of Heterosexism and its Paradoxes / Chris Brickell -- The Paradox -- 5. Queer Masculinities of Straight Men : A Typology / Robert Heasley -- 6. White Heterosexuality : A Romance of the Straight Man's Burden / Mason Stokes -- 7. The Mermaid and the Heterosexual Imagination / Laurie Essig -- The Promise -- 8. Someday My Prince Will Come : Disney, the Heterosexual Imaginary and Animated Film / Carrie Cokely -- 9. Out of Wedlock : Why some Poor Women Reject Marriage / Margaret Walsh -- 10. The Production of Heterosexuality at the High School Prom / Amy Best -- 11. Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace : The Filming of Wedding Advice / Karen Sosnoski. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Chrys Ingraham. |
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""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."<br>-Jonathan Ned Katz, author of "The Invention of Heterosexuality <br> Read more...
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