The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity

Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Edited by Sertaç Sehlikoglu and Frank G. Karioris - Contributions by Fernanda Belizario; Ina Goel; Frank G. Karioris; Marjo Kolehmainen; Maria Mayerchyk; Yv E. Nay; Caroline Osella; Amelie Le Renard; Erol Saglam; Sertaç Sehlikoglu and Rama Srinivasan

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.

Lexington Books

Pages: 224 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼

978-1-7936-0124-7 • Hardback • November 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

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Subjects: Social Science / LGBT Studies / General, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Gender Studies

The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity

Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

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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.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 224 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼

978-1-7936-0124-7 • Hardback • November 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)

978-1-7936-0126-1 • Paperback • June 2021 • $44.99 • (£35.00)

Subjects: Social Science / LGBT Studies / General, Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural, Social Science / Gender Studies

Author

Sertaç Sehlikoglu is research fellow at Pembroke College and affiliated lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology and the faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Cambridge.

Frank G. Karioris is visiting lecturer of gender, sexuality, and women's studies at the University of Pittsburgh and director of the Center for Critical Gender Studies at the American University of Central Asia.

Table of 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. Western Subjectivities, and Multiple Heterosexuailties in Neoliberal Dubai

Amelie Le Renard

Part IV: Transing & Crossing

Chapter Eight: Transing-normativities: understanding hijra communes as queer homes

Ina Goel

Chapter Nine: Loving travestis: a lady in the bed, a whore in the living room

Fernanda Belizario

Chapter Ten: Queer Family’s Longing for Belonging – Heteronormativity Beyond Anti-Normativity

Yv E. Nay

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The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity

Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

Edited by Sertaç Sehlikoglu and Frank G. Karioris - Contributions by Fernanda Belizario; Ina Goel; Frank G. Karioris; Marjo Kolehmainen; Maria Mayerchyk; Yv E. Nay; Caroline Osella; Amelie Le Renard; Erol Saglam; Sertaç Sehlikoglu and Rama Srinivasan

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Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality

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