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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality - Couverture souple

Blank, Hanne

 
9780807044599: Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0807044598 ISBN 13 : 9780807044599
Editeur : Beacon Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Writer and historian Hanne Blank is the author of Virgin: The Untouched History and seven other books that explore the intersections of sexuality, gender, the body, and culture.

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Éditeur
Beacon Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807044598
ISBN 13 
9780807044599
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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