Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality
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.
- 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.
- Edition: January 31, 2012
- ‘Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality’ by Hanne Blank is an excellent short history about how society began to categorize the ‘correct’ way sexual acts should be done.
- Contents:
- The love that could not speak its name
- Carnal knowledge
- Straight science
- The marrying type
- What's love got to do with it?
- The pleasure principle
- Here there be dragons
- Language: English
- Hardcover: 264 pages
- Item Weight: 1.2 pounds
- Dimensions: 6.22 x 0.98 x 9.28 inches
- Hanne Blank: www.hanneblank.com/
- Publisher: Beacon Press
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