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[Charles Brown]

Yes, I was in a sensitivity training about 10 years ago when this was said. However, it doesn't seem odd or ridiculous to me to ask what is the cause of heterosexuality ? What is the answer the many authors listed give to this question ? That it is not hereditary, but socially constructed, I presume. What are the main points of their argument ?

Charles 


>>> Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> 02/09 9:36 PM
At the same time, the same ideology makes us think of the
opposite question as odd and ridiculous: "what is the cause of
heterosexuality?" For further investigation of this angle, see, for
instance, Jonathan Ned Katz, _The Invention of Heterosexuality_; Judith
Butler, _Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity_; Fear of
a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory_ (Ed. Michael Warner); Eve
Kosofsky Sedgwick, _Epistemology of the Closet_ and _Tendencies_;
_Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories_  (Ed. Diana Fuss); _Hidden
from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past_ (Eds. Martha Vicinus, et
al.); Mary Louise Adams, _The Trouble with Normal: Postwar Youth and the
Making of Heterosexuality_; _Border Patrols: Policing the Boundaries of
Heterosexuality_ (Ed. Deborah Lynn Steinberg); _Queering the Renaissance_
(Ed. Jonathan Goldberg); and John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman, _Intimate
Matters: A History of Sexuality in America_.

Yoshie