Mundane Heterosexualities From Theory to Practices

by Hockey, Jenny; Meah, Angela; Robinson, Victoria

• ISBN13: 9781403997456
• ISBN10: 1403997454
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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. Presenting new data on the making of heterosexual relationships within extended families, it raises profound methodological questions about empirical research into an invisible or unmarked category which have implications for work on the body, emotions, everyday life and masculinity, amongst other issues.

Author Biography

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 Research Fellow in the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work at the University of Manchester, UK. Angela's current work, engaging inclusive methodologies in the development of sex and relationships education for learning-disabled children, combines her interests in methodology, sexuality/sexual health and the social study of childhood.

VICTORIA ROBINSON lectures in sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK. She has edited books on women's and gender studies, and her monograph: Masculinities, The Everyday and Rock Climbing, is forthcoming. She is currently engaged in ESRC-funded research on masculinities in transition.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Unmasking Heterosexuality	p. 1
Theories of Heterosexuality Reconsidered	p. 22
A Heterosexual Life: Agency and Structure	p. 45
Heterosexuality Across the Twentieth Century	p. 64
Getting the Story Straight	p. 86
Getting it Together? Carnal and Romantic Discourses	p. 103
What's Sex Got to Do With It? Heterosexuality as an Organising Principle	p. 125
Nothing Natural? At Home with Heterosexuality	p. 144
Different Heterosexualities: Different Histories	p. 162
Conclusion	p. 182
References	p. 190
Subject Index	p. 201
Author Index	p. 204
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