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
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.
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"*
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