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Heterosexual Histories /

Heterosexual Histories constructs a new framework for the history of heterosexuality, examining unexplored assumptions and insisting that not only sex but race, class, gender, age, and geography matter to its past. Each of the fourteen essays in this volume examines the history of heterosexuality fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Mitchell, Michele, 1965- (Editor ), Davis, Rebecca L. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction, or, Why Do the History of Heterosexuality?
  • Part I: Difference and Desire since the Seventeenth Century
  • 1. Toward a Cultural Poetics of Desire in a World before Heterosexuality
  • 2. The Strange Career of Interracial Heterosexuality
  • 3. Age Disparity, Marriage, and the Gendering of Heterosexuality
  • 4. "Deviant Heterosexuality" and Model-Minority Families: Asian American History and Racialized Heteronormativity
  • Part II: Difference, Bodies, and Popular Culture
  • 5. Defining Sexes, Desire, and Heterosexuality in Colonial British America
  • 6. Spectacles of Restraint: Race, Excess, and Heterosexuality in Early American Print Culture
  • 7. Heterosexual Inversions: Satire, Parody, and Comedy in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Part III: Embracing and Contesting Legitimacy
  • 8. Holding the Line: Mexicans and Heterosexuality in the Nineteenth-Century West
  • 9. Suburban Swing: Heterosexual Marriage and Spouse Swapping in the 1950s and 1960s
  • 10. Race, Sexual Citizenship, and the Constitution of Nonmarital Motherhood
  • Part IV: Discourses of Desire
  • 11. Restoring "Virginal Conditions" and Reinstating the "Normal": Episiotomy in 1920
  • 12. How Heterosexuality Became Religious: Judeo-Christian Morality and the Remaking of Sex in Twentieth-Century America
  • 13. The Price of Shame: Second-Wave Feminism and the Lewinsky-Clinton Scandal.