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'The trouble with normal - and with heterosexuality - is that they're usually assumed. Here, however, in this major, trouble-making contribution to the new history of heterosexuality, the normal and the heterosexual are explicitly questioned, their mode of production historically specified. Here, the idea of heterosexuality, the discourse about it, and the particular historical system of erotic, gendered relationships called heterosexuality, are shown to be socially produced, not natural. Mary Louise Adams proves a most able, enterprising detective of sex.' - Jonathan Ned Katz, author of The Invention of Heterosexuality

"'The trouble with ""normal"" - and with ""heterosexuality"" - is that they're usually assumed. Here, however, in this major, trouble-making contribution to the new history of heterosexuality, the ""normal"" and the ""heterosexual"" are explicitly questioned, their mode of production historically specified. Here, the ""idea"" of heterosexuality, ""the discourse"" about it, and the particular historical system of erotic, gendered relationships called heterosexuality, are shown to be socially produced, not natural. Mary Louise Adams proves a most able, enterprising detective of sex.'--Jonathan Ned Katz, author of The Invention of Heterosexuality"

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Mary Louise Adams is an associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies and the Department of Sociology at Queen's University.

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