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Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this book the author presents a history of heterosexuality, explores the contemporary psyche of sexual orientation, and shows how culture creates and manipulates thoughts and experiences of desire, love, and relationships. Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly and permanently transformed Western culture. The idea of "the heterosexual"? was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been...