Heterosexuality in Theory and Practice.

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 account...

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Main Author: Beasley, Chris
Other Authors: Brook, Heather, Holmes, Mary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Series:Routledge advances in feminist studies and intersectionality.
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Summary: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, c.
Physical Description:1 online resource (139 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-121) and index.
ISBN:9781136247064
1136247068
9781283711388
1283711389
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.