The invention of heterosexuality
with a new preface
University of Chicago Press ed.
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Author
Publication
2007 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois
Language
English
Word Count
76,250 words, Guess
Page Count
305 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL17173877M
- ISBN-139780226426013
- ISBN-100226426017
- OCLC Control Number76864375
- Library of Congress Control Number2006039623
and 2 more
- Goodreads744245
- LibraryThing107834
Classifications
- DDC306.7609182/10904
- LCCHQ23 .K315 2007
Description
“Heterosexuality,” assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. Building on the history of medical terminology, he reveals that as late as 1923, the term “heterosexuality” referred to a "morbid sexual passion," and that its current usage emerged to legitimate men and women having sex for pleasure. Drawing on the works of Sigmund Freud, James Baldwin, Betty Friedan, and Michel Foucault, The Invention of Heterosexuality considers the effects of heterosexuality’s recently forged primacy on both scientific literature and popular culture.
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