Mundane Heterosexualities

Mundane Heterosexualities is the first major empirical study of a category that has been described as 'invisible' or 'unmarked' - an asepct of everyday life that is taken for granted. Engaging with feminist theorizing around heterosexuality, this book draws on empirical data, arguing that this is vi [...]
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Mundane Heterosexualities is the first major empirical study of a category that has been described as 'invisible' or 'unmarked' - an asepct of everyday life that is taken for granted. Engaging with feminist theorizing around heterosexuality, this book draws on empirical data, arguing that this is vital if research in this area is to develop further. Through life course interviews with members of different generations within extended families, this study addresses questions of what it means to grow up heterosexual, how the gendered body comes into being, what aspects of a 'heterosexual imaginary' individuals draw on when anticipating adult heterosexuality, and what they perceive as their heterosexual 'successes' and 'failures'. The authors argue that heterosexuality transcends the sexual, instead shaping our gender identities and patterning our lives during both their mundane and extreme periods, becomnig the organizing principle of our everyday existence. Now available in paperback, this book will be vital reading to those concerned with sexuality, gender, identity, the family and the everyday.