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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality
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Title: Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality
Author: Hanne Blank
ISBN: 9780807044438
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 264
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly transformed Western culture. The idea of "the heterosexual" was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and sometimes even falling in love for millennia without having any special name for their emotions or acts. Yet, within half a century, "heterosexual" had become a byword for "normal," enshrined in law, medicine, psychiatry, and the media as a new gold standard for human experience. With an eclectic scope and fascinating detail, "Straight" tells the eye-opening story of a complex and often contradictory man-made creation that turns out to be anything but straight or narrow.
Author: Hanne Blank
ISBN: 9780807044438
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 264
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly transformed Western culture. The idea of "the heterosexual" was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and sometimes even falling in love for millennia without having any special name for their emotions or acts. Yet, within half a century, "heterosexual" had become a byword for "normal," enshrined in law, medicine, psychiatry, and the media as a new gold standard for human experience. With an eclectic scope and fascinating detail, "Straight" tells the eye-opening story of a complex and often contradictory man-made creation that turns out to be anything but straight or narrow.
