Theorising Heterosexuality
Subtitle: Telling It Straight
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: June 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780335195039
Subjects: Feminism; Gay & Lesbian studies; Sexual behaviour; Gender identity; Heterosexuality
First sentence: Within social and political theory little attention has traditionally been given to theorising heterosexuality.
Description: Little attention has traditionally been given to theorising heterosexuality. Heterosexuality tends to be taken for granted, as something that is 'natural' and 'normal'. Theorising Heterosexuality questions this assumption and demonstrates how much of our understanding of ourselves and the social worlds we inhabit is based upon unquestioned assumptions about the nature of heterosexuality.

In what ways does heterosexuality encode and structure everyday life? How does heterosexuality shape our sense of identity? What is the nature of heterosexual desire? What is the relationship between heterosexuality and feminism? In addition to addressing these questions, the contributors to Theorising Heterosexuality provide a critical examination of recent debates about heterosexuality, in particular within postmodern, feminist and queer theory.