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 accounts that cast
heterosexuality in "sex critical, sex as danger" terms.
Queer/feminist 'pro-sex' perspectives have become prevalent in
analyses of sexuality, but in these approaches queer becomes the
site of subversive, transgressive, exciting and pleasurable sex,
while heterosex, if mentioned at all, continues to be seen as
objectionable or dowdy. It challenges heterosexuality's comparative
absence in gender/sexuality debates and the common constitution of
heterosexuality as nasty, boring and normative. The authors develop
an innovative analysis showing the limits of the sharply bifurcated
perspectives of the "sex wars." This is not a revisionist account
of heterosexuality as merely one option in a fluid smorgasbord, nor
does it dismiss the weight of feminist/pro-feminist critiques of
heterosexuality. This book establishes that if relations of
domination do not constitute the analytical sum of heterosexuality,
then identifying its range of potentialities is clearly important
for understanding and helping to undo its "nastier" elements.
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