Mundane Heterosexualities: From Theory to Practices

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Heterosexuality has been described as an invisible or unmarked category, an aspect of everyday life which for many people is taken-for-granted Mundane Heterosexualities engages with an important body of feminist theorising around heterosexuality - but argues that the need for empirical data remains pressing if thinking in this area is to develop. Through life course interviews with members of different generations within extended families, it addresses questions of what it means to grow up heterosexual, how the ...
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Overview

Heterosexuality has been described as an invisible or unmarked category, an aspect of everyday life which for many people is taken-for-granted Mundane Heterosexualities engages with an important body of feminist theorising around heterosexuality - but argues that the need for empirical data remains pressing if thinking in this area is to develop. Through life course interviews with members of different generations within extended families, it addresses questions of what it means to grow up heterosexual, how the gendered body comes into being, what aspects of a 'heterosexual imaginary' individuals draw on when anticipating adult heterosexuality, and what they perceive as their heterosexual 'successes' and 'failures'. The authors argue that heterosexuality transcends the simply sexual, instead shaping our gender identities and patterning our lives during both their mundane and extreme periods.

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Jenny Hockey trained as a social anthropologist and is Professor of Sociology at Sheffield University, UK

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Angela Meah is Research Associate at Lancaster University Management School and the University of Manchester, UK

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Victoria Robinson lectures in sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780230273474
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication date: 6/15/2010
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 256
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.50 (d)

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JENNY HOCKEY trained as a social anthropologist and is Professor of Sociology at Sheffield University, UK. Her published work on gender includes articles in Sociological Research Online; The Sociological Review; Gender Place and Culture; Gender, Work and Organisation. She is currently engaged in ESRC-funded research on masculinities in transition.

ANGELA MEAH is Research Fellow in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at the University of Manchester, UK. Angela's current work, engaging inclusive methodologies in the development of sex and relationships education for learning-disabled children, combines her interests in methodology, sexuality/sexual health and the social study of childhood.

VICTORIA ROBINSON lectures in sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has edited books on women's and gender studies, and her monograph: Masculinities, The Everyday and Rock Climbing, is forthcoming. She is currently engaged in ESRC-funded research on masculinities in transition.

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Table of Contents

1 Unmasking heterosexuality 1

2 Theories of heterosexuality reconsidered 22

3 A heterosexual life : agency and structure 45

4 Heterosexuality across the twentieth century 64

5 Getting the story straight 86

6 Getting it together? : carnal and romantic discourses 103

7 What's sex got to do with it? : heterosexuality as an organising principle 125

8 Nothing natural? : at home with heterosexuality 144

9 Different heterosexualities : different histories 162

10 Conclusion 182

References 190

Subject index 201

Author index 204

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