Heterosexuality: A Feminism & Psychology Reader

Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger

SAGE Publications, May 17, 1993 - Psychology - 288 pages

Heterosexuality is generally taken for granted, seldom explicitly addressed. Rarely has it been the focus of sustained theory. This Reader is a forum for the analysis of heterosexuality as it relates to feminism and psychology.

Leading feminists, psychologists and activists explore the personal and political implications of heterosexuality and of heterosexuality as an institution. They consider the extent to which feminism and heterosexuality are compatible and the complex interrelationships between sexual behaviour, categories and identities. Acknowledging the interactions between heterosexism and other oppressions, they point to the contradictions between heterosexual desire and heterosexual coercion, between heterosexual

Contents

• CONTENTS: 1
• 52: 23
• SPECIAL FEATURE: 26
• The Personal and the Political: 33
• The DisComfort of Being Hetero: 52
• Love and the Politics of Heterosexuality: 59
• 889: 68
• Technologies and Effects of Heterosexual Coercion: 93
• Fictional Agendas: 137
• Sexual Dysfunction or Heterosexual Dysfunction?: 203
• Sexual Violence and Compulsory Heterosexuality: 219
• OBSERVATIONS COMMENTARIES: 239

Bibliographic information

• Title: Heterosexuality: A Feminism & Psychology Reader
• Editors: Sue Wilkinson, Celia Kitzinger
• Edition: abridged, reprint
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, 1993
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 21, 2009
• ISBN: 0803988222, 9780803988224
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Psychology / General