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Author:   Sue Wilkinson ,  Celia Kitzinger
Publisher:   Sage Publications Ltd
Imprint:   Sage Publications Ltd
Edition:   Abridged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9780803988231

ISBN 10:   0803988230
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   08 February 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Protean Woman - Abridged ContentsPauline B Bart The Liquidity of Female Sexuality and the Tenaciousness of Lesbian Identity Hypatia Unbound - Sandra Lee Bartky A Confession On the Inadequacy of Our Sexual Categories - Sandra Lipsitz Bem A Personal Perspective Sexual Dysfunction or Heterosexual Dysfunction? - Mary Boyle Heterosexual Celibacy - Loulou Brown Same Door, Different Closet - Allan Hunter A Heterosexual Sissy′s Coming-Out Party How My Heterosexuality Affects My Feminist Politics - Carol Nagy Jacklin Sisters Under the Skin - Kadiatu Kanneh A Politics of Heterosexuality Heterosexuality and Parenting - Susie Orbach `Safe by Nature′ - Cindy Patton Reconstructing Heterosexual Identity Under the Sign of AIDS Heterosexual Identity - Julia Penelope Out of the Closets Love and the Politics of Heterosexuality - Caroline Ramazanoglu Radical Feminist Heterosexuality - Robyn Rowland The Personal and the Political Retelling Myself - Janet Sayers Heterosexual Instrumentalism - S P Schacht and P H Atchison Past and Future Directions The (Dis)Comfort of Being `Hetero′ - Nira Yuval-Davis EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION - FULL CONTENTS Theorising Heterosexuality - Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson SPECIAL FEATURE HETEROSEXUAL FEMINIST IDENTITIES THE PERSONAL AND THE POLITICAL Editors′ Introduction - Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson How My Heterosexuality Affects My Feminist Politics - Carol Nagy Jacklin The Authority of the Name - Alison Young On Being Ordinary - Halla Beloff Hypatia Unbound - Sandra Lee Bartky A Confession Identity, `Passing′ and Subversion - Mary Crawford Sisters Under the Skin - Kadiatu G Kanneh A Politics of Heterosexuality Heterosexuality and Parenting - Susie Orbach On the Inadequacy of our Sexual Categories - Sandra Lipsitz Bem A Personal Perspective The (Dis)Comfort of Being `Hetero′ - Nira Yuval-Davis Heterosexuality - Sheila Kitzinger Challenge and Opportunity Heterosexual Feminist Identities - Hilary Lips and Susan Alexandra Freedman Private Boundaries and Shifting Centers Love and the Politics of Heterosexuality - Caroline Ramazanoglu Unbundling Our Binaries - Genders, Sexualities, Desires - Mary Gergen How My Heterosexuality Contributes to My Feminism and Vice Versa - Shulamit Reinharz Heterosexuality, Feminism, Contradiction - Rosalind Gill and Rebecca Walker On Being Young, White, Heterosexual Feminists in the 1990s Retelling Myself - Janet Sayers Radical Feminist Heterosexuality - Robyn Rowland The Personal and the Political Heterosexuality - Victoria Robinson Beginnings and Connections he Heterosexual Feminist - Alison Thomas A Paradoxical Identity? Against Separatism - Elizabeth Mapstone Heterosexual Celibacy - Loulou Brown ARTICLES Technologies and Effects of Heterosexual Coercion - Nicola Gavey Heterosexual Instrumentalism - S P Schacht and Patricia H Atchison Past and Future Directions Heterosexuality - Patricia Duncker Fictional Agendas Same Door, Different Closet - Allan Hunter A Heterosexual Sissy′s Coming-Out Party Against the Dividing of Women - Denise Thompson Lesbian Feminism and Heterosexuality Sex, Organs and Audiotape - Jackie Gilfoyle, Jonathan Wilson and Brown A Discourse Analytic Approach to Talking About Heterosexual Sex and Relationships Sexual Dysfunction or Heterosexual Dysfunction? - Mary Boyle Sexual Violence and Compulsory Heterosexuality - Jenny Kitzinger OBSERVATIONS AND COMMENTARIES Fear of a Black (and Working Class) Planet - Christine Griffin Young Women and the Racialisation of Reproductive Politics Sleeping with the Enemy - Rose Croghan Mothers in Heterosexual Relationships Protean Woman - Pauline B Bart The Liquidity of Female Sexuality and the Tenaciousness of Lesbian Identity Feminist Therapy with Heterosexual Couples - Doris DeHardt The Ultimate Issue is Domination `Safe by Nature′ - Cindy Patton Reconstructing Heterosexual Identity Under the Sign of AIDS Heterosexual Identity - Julia Penelope Out of the Closets Disability and `Compulsory Heterosexuality′ - Yvon Appleby A Homogeneous Habit - Helen (charles) Heterosexual Display in the English Holiday Camp Sisterhood in the Service of Patriarchy - Tamsin Wilton Heterosexual Women′s Friendships and Male Power

Reviews

`Both psychology and, for the most part, feminist theory, have tended to assume heterosexuality as ""a given"". Heterosexuality needs to become a ""serious target for analysis and political action"", because, quoting Adrienne Rich, heterosexuality is `a political institution which disempowers women′. These arguments provide the explicit and powerful rationale for focusing an entire issue on the attempt to theorise heterosexuality... this volume graphically recognises and registers the need to address heterosexuality as a political institution which oppresses women. In doing so, it represents an opportunity to address the continuing difficulties of understanding and criticising heterosexuality over and beyond our sexual and domestic arrangements′ - Trouble and Strife `A unique and exciting reader... Wilkinson and Kitzinger, as lesbian feminist psychologists, are in an interesting position from which to view heterosexuality. From the vantage point of ""the other"" they are able to disentangle the experiences of heterosexual feminists from what is the, until now, unexamined normative existence of the `Generic Women′... an important addition to feminist scholarship about women′s sexuality. Within an historical context where early books on oppressed groups were written by members of dominant groups, we find it refreshing to see two lesbian feminists taking the lead with heterosexuality and feminism and recruiting heterosexuals to bring ""unexamined heterocentricity"" into the light′ - Contemporary Psychology `A bold and innovative collection of essays that deposes heterosexuality from its dominant, assumed status and treats it as a problematic category in need of examination and explanation... It is a book that challenges the reader to examine their beliefs and assumptions, as well as to think critically about a typically assumed and therefore silent identity. Heterosexuality has spawned a plethora of questions in my mind and left me with an insatiable appetite to know more. Perhaps this, better than anything, is a successful measure of the provocative and innovative nature of this project′ - Archives of Sexual Behavior `a marvelous blend of autobiography and theory, the story and the story unravelled - the readers, like the authors, will confront the taken-for-granted and grow from the experience′ - Barbara Katz Rothman, City University of New York and author of Recreating Motherhood `This innovative and challenging volume makes a new space for exploring heterosexuality. We learn how heterosexuality is more than sex and how it permeates, or constrains, our intellectual as well as our personal and political practice′ - Jill Morawski, Wesleyan University `One of the book′s great strengths is that it comes from women′s own understanding of their lives and their sexuality... All are strong, articulate women who enhance our awareness of our own feelings and experiences′ - Maggie Humm, University of East London and Co-Chair of British Women′s Studies Association `a brave project. The material is very rich. Heterosexuality and heterosexism are highlighted from many angles cross-cutting racial, ethnic and class boundaries. Many women will love to read this. It confronts heterosexual women with the implications of an identity they otherwise take for granted′ - Philomena Essed, University of Amsterdam `a provocative, infuriating, inspiring and challenging set of essays and revelations! I heartily commend this volume to anyone who is interested in the remarkable range of human sexualities, and in confounding the dualisms of gender and the dualisms of sexuality that plague and divide us ′ - Carol Tavris, author of The Mismeasure of Woman `An exciting exploration of the `choice′ of heterosexuality and its implications for women′s lives and feminist politics - developing theory at the cutting edge′ - Shere Hite, author of The Hite Reports

'Both psychology and, for the most part, feminist theory, have tended to assume heterosexuality as a given . Heterosexuality needs to become a serious target for analysis and political action , because, quoting Adrienne Rich, heterosexuality is 'a political institution which disempowers women'. These arguments provide the explicit and powerful rationale for focusing an entire issue on the attempt to theorise heterosexuality... this volume graphically recognises and registers the need to address heterosexuality as a political institution which oppresses women. In doing so, it represents an opportunity to address the continuing difficulties of understanding and criticising heterosexuality over and beyond our sexual and domestic arrangements' - Trouble and Strife 'A unique and exciting reader... Wilkinson and Kitzinger, as lesbian feminist psychologists, are in an interesting position from which to view heterosexuality. From the vantage point of the other they are able to disentangle the experiences of heterosexual feminists from what is the, until now, unexamined normative existence of the 'Generic Women'... an important addition to feminist scholarship about women's sexuality. Within an historical context where early books on oppressed groups were written by members of dominant groups, we find it refreshing to see two lesbian feminists taking the lead with heterosexuality and feminism and recruiting heterosexuals to bring unexamined heterocentricity into the light' - Contemporary Psychology 'A bold and innovative collection of essays that deposes heterosexuality from its dominant, assumed status and treats it as a problematic category in need of examination and explanation... It is a book that challenges the reader to examine their beliefs and assumptions, as well as to think critically about a typically assumed and therefore silent identity. Heterosexuality has spawned a plethora of questions in my mind and left me with an insatiable appetite to know more. Perhaps this, better than anything, is a successful measure of the provocative and innovative nature of this project' - Archives of Sexual Behavior 'a marvelous blend of autobiography and theory, the story and the story unravelled - the readers, like the authors, will confront the taken-for-granted and grow from the experience' - Barbara Katz Rothman, City University of New York and author of Recreating Motherhood 'This innovative and challenging volume makes a new space for exploring heterosexuality. We learn how heterosexuality is more than sex and how it permeates, or constrains, our intellectual as well as our personal and political practice' - Jill Morawski, Wesleyan University 'One of the book's great strengths is that it comes from women's own understanding of their lives and their sexuality... All are strong, articulate women who enhance our awareness of our own feelings and experiences' - Maggie Humm, University of East London and Co-Chair of British Women's Studies Association 'a brave project. The material is very rich. Heterosexuality and heterosexism are highlighted from many angles cross-cutting racial, ethnic and class boundaries. Many women will love to read this. It confronts heterosexual women with the implications of an identity they otherwise take for granted' - Philomena Essed, University of Amsterdam 'a provocative, infuriating, inspiring and challenging set of essays and revelations! I heartily commend this volume to anyone who is interested in the remarkable range of human sexualities, and in confounding the dualisms of gender and the dualisms of sexuality that plague and divide us ' - Carol Tavris, author of The Mismeasure of Woman 'An exciting exploration of the 'choice' of heterosexuality and its implications for women's lives and feminist politics - developing theory at the cutting edge' - Shere Hite, author of The Hite Reports

'Both psychology and, for the most part, feminist theory, have tended to assume heterosexuality as a given . Heterosexuality needs to become a serious target for analysis and political action , because, quoting Adrienne Rich, heterosexuality is 'a political institution which disempowers women'. These arguments provide the explicit and powerful rationale for focusing an entire issue on the attempt to theorise heterosexuality... this volume graphically recognises and registers the need to address heterosexuality as a political institution which oppresses women. In doing so, it represents an opportunity to address the continuing difficulties of understanding and criticising heterosexuality over and beyond our sexual and domestic arrangements' - Trouble and Strife 'A unique and exciting reader... Wilkinson and Kitzinger, as lesbian feminist psychologists, are in an interesting position from which to view heterosexuality. From the vantage point of the other they are able to disentangle the experiences of heterosexual feminists from what is the, until now, unexamined normative existence of the 'Generic Women'... an important addition to feminist scholarship about women's sexuality. Within an historical context where early books on oppressed groups were written by members of dominant groups, we find it refreshing to see two lesbian feminists taking the lead with heterosexuality and feminism and recruiting heterosexuals to bring unexamined heterocentricity into the light' - Contemporary Psychology 'A bold and innovative collection of essays that deposes heterosexuality from its dominant, assumed status and treats it as a problematic category in need of examination and explanation... It is a book that challenges the reader to examine their beliefs and assumptions, as well as to think critically about a typically assumed and therefore silent identity. Heterosexuality has spawned a plethora of questions in my mind and left me with an insatiable appetite to know more. Perhaps this, better than anything, is a successful measure of the provocative and innovative nature of this project' - Archives of Sexual Behavior 'a marvelous blend of autobiography and theory, the story and the story unravelled - the readers, like the authors, will confront the taken-for-granted and grow from the experience' - Barbara Katz Rothman, City University of New York and author of Recreating Motherhood 'This innovative and challenging volume makes a new space for exploring heterosexuality. We learn how heterosexuality is more than sex and how it permeates, or constrains, our intellectual as well as our personal and political practice' - Jill Morawski, Wesleyan University 'One of the book's great strengths is that it comes from women's own understanding of their lives and their sexuality... All are strong, articulate women who enhance our awareness of our own feelings and experiences' - Maggie Humm, University of East London and Co-Chair of British Women's Studies Association 'a brave project. The material is very rich. Heterosexuality and heterosexism are highlighted from many angles cross-cutting racial, ethnic and class boundaries. Many women will love to read this. It confronts heterosexual women with the implications of an identity they otherwise take for granted' - Philomena Essed, University of Amsterdam 'a provocative, infuriating, inspiring and challenging set of essays and revelations! I heartily commend this volume to anyone who is interested in the remarkable range of human sexualities, and in confounding the dualisms of gender and the dualisms of sexuality that plague and divide us ' - Carol Tavris, author of The Mismeasure of Woman 'An exciting exploration of the 'choice' of heterosexuality and its implications for women's lives and feminist politics - developing theory at the cutting edge' - Shere Hite, author of The Hite Reports

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