7. Heterosexual Inversions: Satire, Parody, and Comedy in the 1950s and 1960s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction, or, Why Do the History of Heterosexuality? 1
4. Part I: Difference and Desire since the Seventeenth Century
5. 1. Toward a Cultural Poetics of Desire in a World before Heterosexuality 37
6. 2. The Strange Career of Interracial Heterosexuality 69
7. 3. Age Disparity, Marriage, and the Gendering of Heterosexuality 96
8. 4. “Deviant Heterosexuality” and Model- Minority Families: Asian American History and Racialized Heteronormativity 120
9. Part II: Difference, Bodies, and Popular Culture
10. 5. Defining Sexes, Desire, and Heterosexuality in Colonial British America 145
11. 6. Spectacles of Restraint: Race, Excess, and Heterosexuality in Early American Print Culture 169
12. 7. Heterosexual Inversions: Satire, Parody, and Comedy in the 1950s and 1960s 195
13. Part III: Embracing and Contesting Legitimacy
14. 8. Holding the Line: Mexicans and Heterosexuality in the Nineteenth- Century West 227
15. 9. Suburban Swing: Heterosexual Marriage and Spouse Swapping in the 1950s and 1960s 251
16. 10. Race, Sexual Citizenship, and the Constitution of Nonmarital Motherhood 274
17. Part IV: Discourses of Desire
18. 11. Restoring “Virginal Conditions” and Reinstating the “Normal”: Episiotomy in 1920 303
19. 12. How Heterosexuality Became Religious: Judeo- Christian Morality and the Remaking of Sex in Twentieth- Century America 331
20. 13. The Price of Shame: Second- Wave Feminism and the Lewinsky- Clinton Scandal 358
21. Acknowledgments 387
22. About the Contributors 391
23. Index 397