Heterosexual Histories / / ed. by Michele Mitchell, Rebecca L. Davis.

• MitwirkendeR: Avila, Zurisaday Gutiérrez,; Block, Sharon,; Davis, Rebecca L.,; Friedman, Andrea,; Godbeer, Richard,; Johnson, Rashauna,; Lewis, Carolyn Herbst,; Mayeri, Serena,; Mitchell, Michele,; Mitchell, Pablo,; Rodriguez, Sarah,; Romano, Renee,; Stein, Marc,; Syrett, Nicholas L.,; White, Heather R.,; Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun,
• HerausgeberIn: Davis, Rebecca L.,; Mitchell, Michele,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 3 b/w illustrations

The history of heterosexuality in North America across four centuriesHeterosexuality is usually regarded as something inherently “natural”—but what is heterosexuality, and how has it taken shape across the centuries? By challenging ahistorical approaches to the heterosexual subject, Heterosexual His...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction, or, Why Do the History of Heterosexuality?
• Part I Difference and Desire since the Seventeenth Century
• 1. Toward a Cultural Poetics of Desire in a World before Heterosexuality
• 2 The Strange Career of Interracial Heterosexuality
• 3 Age Disparity, Marriage, and the Gendering of Heterosexuality
• 4 “Deviant Heterosexuality” and Model- Minority Families
• Part II Difference, Bodies, and Popular Culture
• 5. Defining Sexes, Desire, and Heterosexuality in Colonial British America
• 6. Spectacles of Restraint: Race, Excess, and Heterosexuality in Early American Print Culture
• 7. Heterosexual Inversions: Satire, Parody, and Comedy in the 1950s and 1960s
• Part III Embracing and Contesting Legitimacy
• 8. Holding the Line: Mexicans and Heterosexuality in the Nineteenth-Century West
• 9 Suburban Swing
• 10 Race, Sexual Citizenship, and the Constitution of Nonmarital Motherhood
• Part IV Discourses of Desire
• 11. Restoring “Virginal Conditions” and Reinstating the “Normal”: Episiotomy in 1920
• 12 How Heterosexuality Became Religious
• 13 The Price of Shame
• Acknowledgments
• About the Contributors
• Index