Demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940, cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to form a new concept of the "normal" American. Building her argument from detailed readings of an array of popular texts and focusing on how sex education for children and marita…
A psychological understanding of the problems associated with male sexuality is urgently needed, for this is one of the dimensions of the male code that has fallen the farthest and the fastest. . . In this volume, Larry A. Morris provides what we most need at this time: A schola…
A psychological understanding of the problems associated with male sexuality is urgently needed, for this is one of the dimensions of the male code that has fallen the farthest and the fastest. . . In this volume, Larry A. Morris provides what we most need at this time: A schola…
"This book charts the development of feminist and sociological theorizing on sexuality, as well as the emergence of a radical critique of heterosexuality." "Heterosexuality in Question is vital reading to those interested in the study of sexuality, as well as those concerned wit…
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.
The Western notion of the aggressive, sexually dominant male and the passive female, as Daniel Boyarin makes clear, is not universal. Analyzing ancient and modern texts, he recovers the studious and gentle rabbi as the male ideal and the prime object of the female desire in trad…
