Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 248
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Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4422-3353-9 • Hardback • November 2016 • $102.00 • (£78.00)
978-1-4422-3354-6 • Paperback • November 2016 • $38.00 • (£30.00)
978-1-4422-3355-3 • eBook • November 2016 • $36.00 • (£30.00)
Jean Halley is associate professor of sociology at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. She served as the advisor for the Gay-Straight Alliance while at Wagner College and has taught extensively in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. She is the author of several books, including Boundaries of Touch: Parenting and Adult-Child Intimacy and The Parallel Lives of Women and Cows: Meat Markets.
Amy Eshleman is professor of psychology at Wagner College, where she regularly teaches courses on gender, sexuality, race, social class, and prejudice.
Together, Jean Halley and Amy Eshleman are the authors of Seeing White: An Introduction to White Privilege and Race, with Ramya Mahadevan Vijaya.
1. Privileged Thinking: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
2. Privileged Assumptions: Heterosexuality and the Normative Expression of Gender
3. Privileged Power, Hate, and Heteronormativity
4. Fifty Ways to Be Normal and Other Challenges to Privilege
5. Institutionalized Heteronormativity: Military, Law, and Religion
6. Privileged (Popular) Culture and Internalized Expectations
7. Violence, Aggression, and Privilege
8. It’s Getting Better: Queer Hope, Queer Courage
Seeing Straight is a rewarding—and challenging—book designed to take the young adult from passive acceptance of gender norms and sex roles, through the long and exciting history of awakening of identity, sexuality, dissent, freedom, and into adult respect for the variety of humanity. The volume covers stereotyping and prejudice, sex and gender, queer theory, gender privilege and heteronormativity, what is normal, what is deviant, what is queer and what is courage. The authors emphasize opportunity, empowerment, sex positivity, and the costs of gender and sexual oppression. This book will improve the lives of the students who read it.
— Chris Crandall, University of Kansas
At a moment when sexual politics are playing out in radically new and often contradictory ways, Jean Halley and Amy Eshleman offer us a wonderfully accessible work that centers our attention on the persistent and pervasive entanglements of gender, sexuality, and power. Drawing on real life examples and using an interdisciplinary lens, they have produced a very engaging text that could be used in many undergraduate courses.
— Rafael de la Dehesa, City University of New York
A beautifully written handbook on understanding how systems of power and privilege warp, cloud, and distort human sexual and gender experience. I think the concluding section will save many lives, as the authors offer realistic hopes based on existing social progress.
— Peggy McIntosh, associate director, Wellesley College Center for Research on Women and author of "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"
An accessible introduction to gender, sexuality, and queer studies
Challenges students to examine their own understanding of gender and sexuality without shame
Addresses gender and sexuality in areas such as sports, pop culture, religion, and more
• Winner, ALA GLBT Over the Rainbow 2018 Recommended Reading List