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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815571603321

Autore

Jackson Stevi

Titolo

Heterosexuality in question / / Stevi Jackson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, CA, : Sage Publications, 1999

ISBN

1-4462-6440-8

1-283-88067-9

1-4462-1738-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

306.764

Soggetti

Feminist theory

Heterosexuality

Women - Sexual behavior

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p.[186]-199) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Sources; Part I - The Context; Chapter 1 - Querying Heterosexuality: A Personal History of Feminist and Sociological Theorizing; Part II - Early Explorations; Chapter 2 - On the Social Construction of Female Sexuality; Chapter 3 - The Social Context of Rape: Sexual Scripts and Motivation; Chapter 4 - How to Make Babies: Sexism in Sex Education; Chapter 5 - Femininity, Masculinity and Sexuality; Chapter 6 - The Desire for Freud: Psychoanalysis and Feminism; Part III - Recent Interventions

Chapter 7 - Even Sociologists Fall in Love: An Exploration in the Sociology of EmotionsChapter 8 - Women and Heterosexual Love: Complicity, Resistance and Change; Chapter 9 - Gender and Heterosexuality: A Materialist Feminist Analysis; Chapter 10 - Lost Childhood or Sexualized Girlhood?; Chapter 11 - Taking Liberties: Feminism, Gay Rights and the Problem of Heterosexuality; Chapter 12 - Heterosexuality, Heteronormativity and Gender Hierarchy: Some Reflections on Recent Debates; Bibliography; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on feminism on one hand, and phenomenological and interactionist sociology on the other, this book offers an overview of recent feminist and sociological debates on heterosexuality and the construction of desire.