The history of heterosexuality in North America across four
centuries Heterosexuality is usually regarded as something
inherently “natural”—but what is heterosexuality, and how has
it taken shape across the centuries? By challenging ahistorical
approaches to the heterosexual subject, Heterosexual Histories
constructs a new framework for the history of heterosexuality,
examining unexplored assumptions and insisting that not only sex
but race, class, gender, age, and geography matter to its past.
Each of the fourteen essays in this volume examines the history of
heterosexuality from a different angle, seeking to study this topic
in a way that recognizes plurality, divergence, and inequity.
Editors Rebecca L. Davis and Michele Mitchell have formed a
collection that spans four centuries, addressing the many different
racial groups, geographies, and subcultures of heterosexuality in
North America. The essays range across disciplines with experts
from various fields examining heterosexuality from unique
perspectives: a historian shows how defining heterosexuality, sex,
and desire were integral to the formation of British America and
the process of colonization; a legal scholar examines the
connections between race, sexual citizenship, and nonmarital
motherhood; a gender studies expert analyzes the Clinton-Lewinsky
scandal, and explores the intersections of heterosexuality with
shame and second-wave feminism. Together, these essays explain how
differently earlier Americans understood the varieties of gender
and different-sex sexuality, how heterosexuality emerged as a
dominant way of describing gender, and how openly many people
acknowledged and addressed heterosexuality’s fragility. By
contesting presumptions of heterosexuality’s stability or
consistency, Heterosexual Histories opens the historical record to
interrogations of the raced, classed, and gendered varieties of
heterosexuality and considers the implications of
heterosexuality’s multiplicities and changes. Providing both a
sweeping historical survey and concentrated case studies,
Heterosexual Histories is a crucial addition to the field of
sexuality studies.
General
| Imprint: |
New York University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
February 2021 |
| Editors: |
Rebecca L. Davis
• Michele Mitchell
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
416 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4798-0228-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-4798-0228-X |
| Barcode: |
9781479802289 |
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