Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Hetrosexuality
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299562219 (1299562213)
Publish date: January 1st 2012
Publisher: Beacon Press
Edition language: English
“We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.”The GoodI like books that teach me more about what I think I already know. Take the blunt force “common knowledge” (doxa) and pull it apart until you have a finer, more nuanced unders...
This isn't a "bad" book per se, but it's curiously pointless. While Blank sets out to limn the history of heterosexuality as a concept, what she really ends up doing at great length and to little new effect, is to write about the legal and social concepts of marriage (companionate and otherwise) and...
Whaaat? This 228-page book of nonfiction thought-provoking accessibly-written goodness ends on page 166? With the remaining pages all being annotations and bibliography and index? Ok, that gets the obligatory Darth Vader 'nooooooooo' out of the way, and we can safely continue without the danger of t...
I found this book fascinating, and eye-opening. The author starts from a unique perspective: her partner is intersex (XXY) and appears androgynous. Is her partner male, female, or both? Is the author heterosexual or homosexual? Blank challenges the reader to re-examine his/her/hir attitudes about...
An interesting, though brief, overview of the concept of heterosexuality. Said concept is amazingly recent; prior to the 18th century, people didn't define themselves by who they were attracted to. In the West, most sex acts were considered sinful anyway if they didn't lead to procreation, and there...
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