Heterosexual Histories
In: NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction, or, Why Do the History of Heterosexuality? -- Part I: Difference and Desire since the Seventeenth Century -- 1. Toward a Cultural Poetics of Desire in a World before Heterosexuality -- 2. The Strange Career of Interracial Heterosexuality -- 3. Age Disparity, Marriage, and the Gendering of Heterosexuality -- 4. "Deviant Heterosexuality" and Model- Minority Families: Asian American History and Racialized Heteronormativity -- Part II: Difference, Bodies, and Popular Culture -- 5. Defining Sexes, Desire, and Heterosexuality in Colonial British America -- 6. Spectacles of Restraint: Race, Excess, and Heterosexuality in Early American Print Culture -- 7. Heterosexual Inversions: Satire, Parody, and Comedy in the 1950s and 1960s -- Part III: Embracing and Contesting Legitimacy -- 8. Holding the Line: Mexicans and Heterosexuality in the Nineteenth- Century West -- 9. Suburban Swing: Heterosexual Marriage and Spouse Swapping in the 1950s and 1960s -- 10. Race, Sexual Citizenship, and the Constitution of Nonmarital Motherhood -- Part IV: Discourses of Desire -- 11. Restoring "Virginal Conditions" and Reinstating the "Normal": Episiotomy in 1920 -- 12. How Heterosexuality Became Religious: Judeo- Christian Morality and the Remaking of Sex in Twentieth- Century America -- 13. The Price of Shame: Second- Wave Feminism and the Lewinsky- Clinton Scandal -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Index