Thinking Straight
The Power, Promise and Paradox of Heterosexuality

Edited By

Chrys Ingraham

ISBN 9780415932738

Published November 16, 2004 by Routledge

254 Pages

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

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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." -- Jonathan Ned Katz, author of The Invention of Heterosexuality

Thinking Straight The Power, Promise and Paradox of Heterosexuality