The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity

Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Frank G. Karioris

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978773400
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Cultural & Social Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Using a cross-cultural perspective, The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity: Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality examines the conceptual formulation of heteronormativity and highlights the mundane operations of its construction in diverse contexts. Heterosexual culture simultaneously institutionalizes its narrations and normalcies, operating in a way that preserves its own coherency. Heteronormativity gains its privileges and coherency through public operations and the mutuality of the public and private spheres. The contributors to this edited collection examine this coherency and privilege and explore in ethnographic detail the operations and making of heteronormative devices: material, affective, narrative, spatial, and bodily. This book is recommended for students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, and gender and sexuality studies.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. MAPPING THE NORMS
• Ch01. “Tell Me, What Made You Think You Were Normal?”
• Ch02. Inventing “Heterosexuality” Through Ethnographic Knowledge Production
• Ch03. Commutes, Coffeehouses, and Imaginations
• Part II. INSTITUTIONAL FORMATIONS
• Ch04. Rethinking Heteronormativity in Relationship Counseling
• Ch05. Love, Marriage, and Normative Orders
• Part III. NEOLIBERAL TIMES
• Ch06. Islamic Men in Suits and the Invisible Becoming in Turkey1
• Ch07. Hierarchical Intimacies
• Part IV. TRANSING AND CROSSING
• Ch08. Transing-Normativities
• Ch09. A Lady in the Bed, a Whore in the Living Room
• Ch10. A Queer Family’s Longing for Belonging
• References
• Index
• About the Contributors