Mundane Heterosexualities
Hockey, Jenny; Meah, Angela; Robinson, Victoria
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Description for Mundane Heterosexualities
Paperback. Mundane Heterosexualities is the first major empirical study of heterosexual relationships. Critiquing feminist debates, and examining heterosexual practices across the last century, this book argues that as a social, rather than sexual category, heterosexuality can be seen as the organizing principle of our everyday lives. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
215
Condition
New
Number of Pages
206
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230273474
SKU
V9780230273474
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About Hockey, Jenny; Meah, Angela; Robinson, Victoria
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Mundane Heterosexualities
'This ground-breaking book answers recent calls for more attention to be paid to everyday heterosexuality. Drawing on interviews with three generations of families the authors illuminate the processes whereby heterosexuality is both reproduced and changed intra-generationally and inter-generationally and show how heterosexuality orders far more than merely our sexual lives. In so doing they cast new light on what is ... Read more