Invention of Heterosexuality

Name: Invention of Heterosexuality
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ISBN: 9780226426013

ISBN-10: 0226426017

ISBN-13: 9780226426013

Edition: 2007

Authors: Jonathan Ned Katz, Lisa Duggan, Lisa Duggan

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"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…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 306
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface, 2006



The Genealogy of a Sex Concept: From Homosexual History to Heterosexual History



The Debut of the Heterosexual: Richard von Krafft-Ebing and the Mind Doctors



Before Heterosexuality: Looking Backward



Making the Heterosexual Mystique: Sigmund Freud's Seminal Conceptions



The Heterosexual Comes Out: From Doctor Discourse to the Mass Media



Questioning the Heterosexual Mystique: Some Liberal Feminist and Radical Feminist Verdicts



The Lesbian Menace Strikes Back: Some Lavender Feminist Critiques



Toward a New Pleasure System: Looking Forward


Afterword



Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index