Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these works on sexuality and intimacy, earliest first.
- Hochschild’s The Managed Heart
- Illouz’s Why Love Hurts
- Giddens’s The Transformation of Intimacy
- Rich’s essay on compulsory heterosexuality
- Foucault’s History of Sexuality, volume one
- Kinsey’s report on the human male
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- The mid-century survey comes first and the critique of Giddens comes last.
- 1948, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1992 and 2012.
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- Kinsey’s report on the human male
- Foucault’s History of Sexuality, volume one
- Rich’s essay on compulsory heterosexuality
- Hochschild’s The Managed Heart
- Giddens’s The Transformation of Intimacy
- Illouz’s Why Love Hurts
Why
The four-year gap between Foucault and Rich is worth noticing. One argues that sexuality is produced by discourse rather than discovered beneath it; the other treats heterosexuality as an institution rather than a preference. They arrive at compatible conclusions from entirely different traditions, which is part of why the constructionist position consolidated so quickly in the 1980s.
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