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At a time when heterosexuality is being queried more rigorously than ever before, this accessible and engaging book charts the development of feminist and sociological theorizing on sexuality and the emergence of a radical critique of heterosexuality. Stevi Jackson reviews a range of important theoretical and substantive issues, and she demonstrates an important shift in feminist thinking from an emphasis on male dominance within heterosexual relations to a critical perspective on heterosexuality itself.

Abstract. Previous research demonstrates that membership of majority groups is often perceived as more fragile than membership of minority groups. Four studies ( N1 = 90, N2 = 247, N3 = 500, N4 = 1,176) investigated whether this was the case for heterosexual identity, relative to gay identity. Support for fragile heterosexuality was found using various methods: sexual orientation perceptions of a target who engaged in incongruent behavior, free-responses concerning behaviors required to change someone's mind about a target's sexual orientation, agreement with statements about men/women's sexual orientation, and agreement with gender-neutral statements about sexual orientation. Neither participant nor target gender eliminated or reversed this effect. Additionally, we investigated multiple explanations (moderators) of the perceived difference in fragility between heterosexual identity and gay identity and found that higher estimates of the gay/lesbian population decreased the difference between the (higher) perceived fragility of heterosexual identity and the (lower) perceived fragility of gay identity.

AbstractPrevious evidence shows that heterosexual people perceive heterosexual status to be more fragile than homosexual status. However, research has not yet investigated whether sexual minorities have similar, or diverging, perceptions of the fragility of sexual orientation. With a sample that included 89 heterosexual and 80 sexual minority participants, we investigated the fragility of heterosexuality using a between-participants design in which participants indicated their agreement with gender neutral statements about the fragility of either heterosexual or homosexual status. Contrary to our expectations we found evidence of Fragile Heterosexuality perceptions regardless of participants' sexual orientation. Additionally, we explored the potential moderating effects of social-dominance orientation, right-wing authoritarianism and prejudice against gay/lesbian people on this Fragile Heterosexuality effect. For sexual minority participants, high levels of social dominance orientation moderated (i.e., increased) the perceived fragility of heterosexual identity relative to homosexual identity. No other inter-group ideology was a significant moderator. These findings highlight that heterosexuality is perceived as more fragile by both heterosexual and sexual minority individuals. Implications and possible avenues for future research are discussed.

This study considers the fictional construction of heterosexuality as social and sexual institution, drawing on selected novels of the 1980s by Margaret Atwood and Jenny Diski, with particular reference to The Edible Woman, Life Before Man and Nothing Natural. I argue that the very ordinary daily oppression of women living traditional heterosexual lives, as well as the more extreme ritual humiliation of a woman involved in a heterosexual sadomasochistic relationship, are related products of sexual difference. I conclude with an argument, from a lesbian and radical feminist perspective, for the complete dismantling of the gender system which is the basis of heterosexuality.

This book explores heterosexualities in their complex and everyday expressions. It engages with theories about the intersection of sexuality with other markers of difference, and gender in particular. The outcome will productively upset equations of heterosexuality with heteronormativity and accounts that cast heterosexuality in "sex critical, sex as danger" terms. Queer/feminist 'pro-sex' perspectives have become prevalent in analyses of sexuality, but in these approaches queer becomes the site of subversive, transgressive, exciting and pleasurable sex, while heterosex, if mentioned at all, c.

Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology CategoryFinalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ StudiesA troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeTooHeterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot camps, and couple's therapy in a search for happiness. In The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, Jane Ward smartly explores what, exactly, is wrong with heterosexuality in the twenty-first century, and what straight people can do to fix it for good. She shows how straight women, and to a lesser extent straight men, have tried to mend a fraught patriarchal system in which intimacy, sexual fulfillment, and mutual respect are expected to coexist alongside enduring forms of inequality, alienation, and violence in straight relationships. Ward also takes an intriguing look at the multi-billion-dollar self-help industry, which markets goods and services to help heterosexual couples without addressing the root of their problems. Ultimately, she encourages straight men and women to take a page out of queer culture, reminding them "about the human capacity to desire, fuck, and show respect at the same time."

THIS ARTICLE ASSERTS THAT THE CONCEPT OF HETEROSEXUALITY IS ONE PARTICULAR HISTORICAL WAY OF PERCEIVING, CATEGORIZING, AND IMAGINING THE SOCIAL RELATIONS OF THE SEXES. THE IDEA OF HETEROSEXUALITY IS A MODERN INVENTION, DATING TO THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY. THIS ESSAY TRACES THE PROCESS BY WHICH THE HETEROSEXUAL IDEA WAS CREATED AS HISTORICAL AND TAKEN-FOR-GRANTED. THE FIRST SECTION ON THE HISTORY OF HETEROSEXUALITY AS WORDS AND IDEAS, IT ADDRESSES SUCH QUESTIONS AS WHAT HAS BEEN AND IS THE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF SEXUAL CATEGORIZING? AND WHOSE INTERESTS HAVE BEEN SERVED BY THE DIVISION OF THE WORLD INTO HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL.