Heterosexuality in Theory and Practice.

This book explores heterosexualities in their complex and everyday expressions. It engages with theories about the intersection of sexuality with other markers of difference, and gender in particular. The outcome will productively upset equations of heterosexuality with heteronormativity and account...

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Main Author: Beasley, Chris
Other Authors: Brook, Heather, Holmes, Mary
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012
Series:Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Unpacking the monolith
  • Nasty, boring, and normative? heterosexuality within the conceptual map of gender and sexuality studies
  • Hetero-doxy : conjugality and the measure of marriage
  • Unknown paths : theorising changes in heterosexual intimacy
  • Fields of practice and possible adventures
  • The challenge of pleasure in preventive health and (hetero) sex education
  • (Not) everyday sexual intimacy : on quiet subversions
  • Thrills and spills : heterosex, "transgressive" adventures, and social change
  • Conclusion: theorising social change from the realm of the dominant
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.