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Book SynopsisWith a cross-cultural perspective, the essays in The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity examine the consistent constructing of heteronormativity as a way to contribute to the conceptual formulation of the term, bring forward the mundane operations of it in diverse contexts, and establish heteronormativity as the focus of an ethnographic lens. Heterosexual culture simultaneously institutionalizes its narrations and normalcies, so that it operates in a way towards preserving its own coherency. Heteronormativity gains its privileges and coherency through public operations, and the mutuality of public and private. The chapters in this volume examine this coherency and privilege, to explore in ethnographic detail the operations and making of heteronormative devices: material, affective, narrative, spatial and bodily.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: Heteronormativity in/as the Everyday Sertaç Sehlikoglu & Frank G. Karioris Part I: Mapping the Norms Chapter One: “Tell me, What Made You Think You Were Normal?”: How Practice will Always Outrun Theory and Why We All Need to Get Out More” Caroline Osella Chapter Two: Ethnological Knowledge Production and Inventing “Heterosexuality”: Tradition of Premarital Sleeping Together (XIX - the beginning of XX century) Maria Mayerchyk Chapter Three: Gendering Men: Commutes, Spaces, and Publicness Erol Saglam Part II: Institutional Formations Chapter Four: Knowledge and Experience In Relationship Counselling Practices? Re-Thinking Heteronormativity Marjo Kolehmainen Chapter Five: Love, Marriage, and Normative Orders: Heterosexual Relationships for Post-Agrarian India Rama Srinivasan Part III: Neoliberal Times Chapter Six: Islamic Men in Suits and The Invisible Becoming in Turkey Sertaç Sehlikoglu Chapter Seven: Hierarchical Intimacies. Western Subjectivities, and Multiple Heterosexuailties in Neoliberal Dubai Amelie Le Renard Part IV: Transing & Crossing Chapter Eight: Transing-normativities: understanding hijra communes as queer homes Ina Goel Chapter Nine: Loving travestis: a lady in the bed, a whore in the living room Fernanda Belizario Chapter Ten: Queer Family’s Longing for Belonging – Heteronormativity Beyond Anti-Normativity Yv E. Nay Bibliography About the Authors
