Heterosexual histories /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Davis, Rebecca L. (Editor), Mitchell, Michele, 1965- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Series:NYU series in social and cultural analysis.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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