Heterosexual histories /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | NYU series in social and cultural analysis.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- 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
- Acknowledgments
- About the Contributors
- Index