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Thinking straight : the power, the promise, and the paradox of heterosexuality
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Thinking straight : the power, the promise, and the paradox of heterosexuality

Author: Chrys Ingraham
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This is an edited collection of new material by some of the top scholars in the area of heterosexual studies.

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Material Type: Internet resource
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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