Mundane Heterosexualities

From Theory to Practices

J. Hockey, A. Meah, V. Robinson (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

206 Seiten

2007
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-27347-4 (ISBN)

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Mundane Heterosexualities provides the reader with a critical overview of feminist thinking on the topic of heterosexuality. It argues that as a social rather than sexual category, heterosexuality can be seen as the organizing principle of our everyday lines.

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 a Research Associate at Lancaster University Management School and the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests include young people and sexual health education, and motherhood, social identity transitions and consumption. DR VICTORIA ROBINSON is Senior Lecturer in sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is the co-editor, with Diane Richardson of Introducing Gender and Women's Studies and author of Masculinities, The Everyday and Rock Climbing.

Unmasking Heterosexuality Theories of Heterosexuality 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 Conclusion Index

Zusatzinfo	IX, 206 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-230-27347-5 / 0230273475
ISBN-13	978-0-230-27347-4 / 9780230273474
Zustand	Neuware