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…
Nancy J. Chodorow takes her fellow psychoanalysts to task for their monolithic and pathologizing accounts of deviant gender and sexuality. Drawing from her own clinical experience, the work of Freud, and a close reading of psychoanalytic texts, Chodorow argues that psychoanalysi…
With her first book, The Reproduction of Mothering, Nancy Chodorow revolutionised feminist theory and therapy. Now she takes her fellow psychoanalysts to task for their monolithic and pathologizing accounts of deviant gender and sexuality. In this her first extended treatment of…
"In the first book-length study of the so-called 'seduction community', Rachel O'Neill goes beyond established understandings of 'pickup artists' as pathetic, pathological, or perverse, and examines what makes the industry so compelling for those drawn into its folds" "Within t…
"Within the so-called 'seduction community', the ability to meet and attract women is understood as a skill heterosexual men can cultivate through practical training and personal development. As a cultural formation it has been the object of media speculation - and frequent sens…
"Within the so-called 'seduction community', the ability to meet and attract women is understood as a skill heterosexual men can cultivate through practical training and personal development. As a cultural formation it has been the object of media speculation - and frequent sens…
With a foreword by Brendan Gough. Modern men the world over are becoming increasingly fascinated with their image, spending more of their disposable income on beautification products and services. Indeed, many men report these as essential for employment and social progression. …
What's the right way to be a feminist? Reconsidering Radical Feminism is not only a clear, precise summary of late twentieth-century feminist debates about the politics of heterosexuality. It's also an examination of how we become invested in arguments that position us as partic…
"What's the right way to be a feminist? Reconsidering Radical Feminism is not only a clear, precise summary of late twentieth-century feminist debates about the politics of heterosexuality. It's also an examination of how we become invested in arguments that position us as parti…
"What's the right way to be a feminist? Reconsidering Radical Feminism is not only a clear, precise summary of late twentieth-century feminist debates about the politics of heterosexuality. It's also an examination of how we become invested in arguments that position us as parti…
"In this study, Mary Louise Adams explores discourses about youth and their place in the production and reproduction of heterosexual norms. She examines debates over juvenile delinquency, indecent literature, and sex education to show not why heterosexuality became a peculiar ob…