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Book SynopsisThe history of heterosexuality in North America across four centuriesHeterosexuality is usually regarded as something inherently naturalbut what is heterosexuality, and how has it taken shape across the centuries? By challenging ahistorical approaches to the heterosexual subject, Heterosexual Histories constructs a new framework for the history of heterosexuality, examining unexplored assumptions and insisting that not only sex but race, class, gender, age, and geography matter to its past. Each of the fourteen essays in this volume examines the history of heterosexuality from a different angle, seeking to study this topic in a way that recognizes plurality, divergence, and inequity. Editors Rebecca L. Davis and Michele Mitchell have formed a collection that spans four centuries, addressing the many different racial groups, geographies, and subcultures of heterosexuality in North America. The essays range across disciplines with experts from various fields examining heterosexuality f
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Heterosexual Histories is a landmark event, and one that promises—I hope!—to invigorate the study of heterosexuality, expanding the terrain and questions that scholars have already explored as well as urgently pressing the histories of heterosexuality in new directions. * American Literary History *
