Mundane heterosexualities : from theory to practices / Jenny Hockey, Angela Meah, Victoria Robinson.

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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Hockey, Jennifer Lorna
Other Authors: Meah, Angela, Robinson, Victoria, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Unmasking heterosexuality
  • Theories of hererosexuality reconsidered
  • A heterosexual life : agency and structure
  • Heterosexuality across the twentieth century
  • Getting the story straight
  • Getting it together? carnal and romantic discourses
  • What's sex got to do with it? heterosexuality as an organising principle
  • Nothing natural? at home with heterosexuality
  • Different heterosexualities : different histories.