Tragedy of Heterosexuality
Tragedy of Heterosexuality Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology CategoryA troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeTooHeterosexuality is in crisis.…
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Tragedy of Heterosexuality
Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology CategoryA troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeTooHeterosexuality is in crisis. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot camps, and couple's therapy in a search for happiness.In The Tragedy of Heterosexuality, Jane Ward smartly explores what, exactly, is wrong with heterosexuality in the twenty-first century, and what straight people can do to fix it for good. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo.
She shows how straight women, and to a lesser extent straight men, have tried to mend a fraught patriarchal system in which intimacy, sexual fulfillment, and mutual respect are expected to coexist alongside enduring forms of inequality, alienation, and