The Everyday Makings of Heteronormativity: Cross-Cultural Explorations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality - Paperback

by Fernanda Belizario (Contribution by), Ina Goel (Contribution by), Frank G. Karioris (Contribution by)

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.

Author Biography

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.