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- catalog abstract ""This boldly original work reexamines our society's basic heterosexual/homosexual distinction - focusing on the evolution of the term heterosexual, which, as this study demonstrates, only entered our language a little more than a hundred years ago, ushering in a new way of dividing up and judging sexuality and people." "Exploring the startling history of the heterosexual concept, Jonathan Ned Katz reveals that as late as the 1920s, heterosexuality was still defined in a major American dictionary as "morbid sexual passion for one of the opposite sex." It was only through a slow process that heterosexuality became this society's dominant norm. Analyzing the work of such pioneering students of sexuality as Sigmund Freud and Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Katz considers the effects of their ideas about the sacred primacy of heterosexuality on both scientific literature and popular culture. He also examines the varied commentaries on heterosexuality by such contemporary writers as James Baldwin, Betty Friedan, Adrienne Rich, Kate Millett, and Michel Foucault."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b7390690.
- catalog coverage "United States New York New York.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description ""This boldly original work reexamines our society's basic heterosexual/homosexual distinction - focusing on the evolution of the term heterosexual, which, as this study demonstrates, only entered our language a little more than a hundred years ago, ushering in a new way of dividing up and judging sexuality and people." "Exploring the startling history of the heterosexual concept, Jonathan Ned Katz reveals that as late as the 1920s, heterosexuality was still defined in a major American dictionary as "morbid sexual passion for one of the opposite sex." It was only through a slow process that heterosexuality became this society's dominant norm. Analyzing the work of such pioneering students of sexuality as Sigmund Freud and Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Katz considers the effects of their ideas about the sacred primacy of heterosexuality on both scientific literature and popular culture. He also examines the varied commentaries on heterosexuality by such contemporary writers as James Baldwin, Betty Friedan, Adrienne Rich, Kate Millett, and Michel Foucault."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-281) and index.".
- catalog description "The genealogy of a sex concept -- The debut of the heterosexual -- Before heterosexuality -- Making the heterosexual mystique -- The heterosexual comes out -- Questioning the heterosexual mystique -- The lesbian menace strikes back -- Toward a new pleasure system.".
- catalog extent "xi, 291 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Invention of heterosexuality.".
- catalog identifier "0525938451 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Invention of heterosexuality.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Dutton,".
- catalog relation "Invention of heterosexuality.".
- catalog spatial "United States New York New York.".
- catalog subject "306.76/4 20".
- catalog subject "HQ23 .K315 1995".
- catalog subject "Heterosexuality History.".
- catalog subject "Heterosexuality Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Homosexuality History.".
- catalog subject "Homosexuality Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Sex History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The genealogy of a sex concept -- The debut of the heterosexual -- Before heterosexuality -- Making the heterosexual mystique -- The heterosexual comes out -- Questioning the heterosexual mystique -- The lesbian menace strikes back -- Toward a new pleasure system.".
- catalog title "The invention of heterosexuality / Jonathan Katz ; foreword by Gore Vidal ; afterword by Lisa Duggan.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".