This is the first and only Critical Heterosexualities Studies handbook to bring together foundational essays, contemporary articles, and emerging research trends.

Introduction - Thinking Straightness: An Introduction to Critical Heterosexualities Studies Part 1: Origins, Histories, Theories 1. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence 2. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions 3. The Invention of Heterosexuality 4. Critique of Compulsory Heterosexuality Part 2: Heterosexualities Across the Life Course 5. Normalizing Heterosexuality: Mothers' Assumptions, Talk, and Strategies with Young Children 6. "Your Father Wouldn't Like It:" The Social Construction of Heterosexuality in Early Childhood 7. "Coming Out": Gender, (Hetero)Sexuality and the Primary School 8. The Ambiguity of "Having Sex": The Subjective Experience of Virginity Loss in the United States 9. Hooking Up: Hot Hetero sex or the New Numb Normative? 10. "Speaking as a Heterosexual": (How) Does Sexuality Matter for Talk-in-Interaction? 11. A Heterosexual Life: Older Women and Agency within Marriage and the Family Part 3: Straight Identities and Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender 12. Prisons for Our Bodies, Closets for Our Minds: Racism, Heterosexism, and Black Sexuality 13. Displaying Heterosexuality in An Inner City 14. Straight Women: Doing and Undoing Compulsory Heterosexuality in Post-Closeted American Culture 15. "Guys are Just Homophobic": Rethinking Adolescent Homophobia and Heterosexuality 16. "Sprinkle Some Gay on my Straight": Hybrid Hegemonic Masculinities in a Post-Gay Era 17. Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: "Gender Normals", Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality Part 4: Straight States 18. Introduction to "The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America" 19. Uganda's Anti-homosexuality Bill: Reflections from a Transnational Frame 20. One is not Born a Bride: How Weddings Regulate Heterosexuality 21. Promoting Marriage for America: The Intimate Relationship Between the State and Heterosexuality Part 5: Rethinking Sexual Fluidity, Straight Privilege, and Allyship 22. Straight Girls Kissing: Heteroflexibility in the College Party Scene 23. A Mixed-Method Study of Same-Sex Kissing among College-Attending Heterosexual Men 24. Bud-Sex: Constructing Normative Masculinity Among Rural Straight Men That Have Sex with Men 25. 'Straight with a Pinch of Bi': The Contours of Male Heteroflexibility 26. No Homo 27. "With Allies Like These...": Toward a Sociology of Straight Allies