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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality | Hanne Blank

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This was a reread; this book was published in 2012 and I read it originally in 13 or 14. It's actually better than I remember it; Hanne Blank perfectly writes nonfiction with the gravity of academia but none of the obtuseness. The explanation of doxa in the first chapter may be the best intro to it I've read. Minor criticism: the lingering on 18 and 19th century marriage formats got a bit long + 1 detail. Overall fantastic and required reading.

annamatopoetry Minor criticism: Blank claims that western pre-20th c sex was almost exclusively penis-in-vagina without involving other practices, which doesn't match the textbook of a recent class I took on medieval gender and sexuality (basically: people were so into other forms of sex that the church had to explicitly tell them it wasn't allowed) 1mo

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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality | Hanne Blank

Like this so far, Blank is a good author, but I have a degree in gender studies and all of this just reminds me of the uselessness of it all. Biologists and historians and anthropologists and sociologists can be experts on human gender and sexuality until the cows come home, but it doesn't MATTER because the horrid little regressives stick their fingers in their ears and go "nu-uh, we want sexual slavery back instead! "

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