Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: Heteronormativity in/as the Everyday
Sertaç Sehlikoglu & Frank G. Karioris
Part I: Mapping the Norms
Chapter One: "Tell me, What Made You Think You Were Normal?": How Practice will Always Outrun Theory and Why We All Need to Get Out More"
Caroline Osella
Chapter Two: Ethnological Knowledge Production and Inventing "Heterosexuality": Tradition of Premarital Sleeping Together (XIX - the beginning of XX century)
Maria Mayerchyk
Chapter Three: Gendering Men: Commutes, Spaces, and Publicness
Erol Saglam
Part II: Institutional Formations
Chapter Four: Knowledge and Experience In Relationship Counselling Practices? Re-Thinking Heteronormativity
Marjo Kolehmainen
Chapter Five: Love, Marriage, and Normative Orders: Heterosexual Relationships for Post-Agrarian India
Rama Srinivasan
Part III: Neoliberal Times
Chapter Six: Islamic Men in Suits and The Invisible Becoming in Turkey
Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Chapter Seven: Hierarchical Intimacies
