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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality

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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality - Blank, Hanne
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Like the typewriter and the light bulb, the heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly transformed Western culture. The idea of "the heterosexual" was unprecedented. After all, men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and sometimes even falling in love for millennia without having any special name for their emotions or acts. Yet, within half a century, "heterosexual" had become a byword for "normal," enshrined in law, medicine, psychiatry, and the media as a new gold standard for human ...

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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality 2012, Beacon Press, Boston

ISBN-13: 9780807044599

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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality 2012, Beacon Press (MA), Boston, MA

ISBN-13: 9780807044438

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