Not Gay

Jane Ward is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Respectably Queer (2008). Visit her website at janewardphd.com.

出版者:NYU Press

作者:Jane Ward

页数:240

出版时间:2015-7-31

价格:GBP 20.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781479825172

图书标签:性别研究社会学/人类学美国性/性别社会学定性/民族志性行为英文书籍

A straight white girl can kiss a girl, like it, and still call herself straight—her boyfriend may even encourage her. But can straight white guys experience the same easy sexual fluidity, or would kissing a guy just mean that they are really gay? Not Gay thrusts deep into a world where straight guy-on-guy action is not a myth but a reality: there’s fraternity and military hazing rituals, where new recruits are made to grab each other’s penises and stick fingers up their fellow members’ anuses; online personal ads, where straight men seek other straight men to masturbate with; and, last but not least, the long and clandestine history of straight men frequenting public restrooms for sexual encounters with other men. For Jane Ward, these sexual practices reveal a unique social space where straight white men can—and do—have sex with other straight white men; in fact, she argues, to do so reaffirms rather than challenges their gender and racial identity.

Ward illustrates that sex between straight white men allows them to leverage whiteness and masculinity to authenticate their heterosexuality in the context of sex with men. By understanding their same-sex sexual practice as meaningless, accidental, or even necessary, straight white men can perform homosexual contact in heterosexual ways. These sex acts are not slippages into a queer way of being or expressions of a desired but unarticulated gay identity. Instead, Ward argues, they reveal the fluidity and complexity that characterizes all human sexual desire. In the end, Ward’s analysis offers a new way to think about heterosexuality—not as the opposite or absence of homosexuality, but as its own unique mode of engaging in homosexual sex, a mode characterized by pretense, dis-identification and racial and heterosexual privilege. Daring, insightful, and brimming with wit, Not Gay is a fascinating new take on the complexities of heterosexuality in the modern era.

读后感

大致逻辑结构：人们现在喜欢认为性取向是天生的，这种观点其实固化了身份。这种观念带来的结果是，直男间的性行为一直很常见，但人们解释时却会认为这是具体情境所导致的，而不是他们本来就是gay。作者认为这种说辞在观念上将直男间的性行为非性化、de-romanticized了，而且这...

大致逻辑结构：人们现在喜欢认为性取向是天生的，这种观点其实固化了身份。这种观念带来的结果是，直男间的性行为一直很常见，但人们解释时却会认为这是具体情境所导致的，而不是他们本来就是gay。作者认为这种说辞在观念上将直男间的性行为非性化、de-romanticized了，而且这...

大致逻辑结构：人们现在喜欢认为性取向是天生的，这种观点其实固化了身份。这种观念带来的结果是，直男间的性行为一直很常见，但人们解释时却会认为这是具体情境所导致的，而不是他们本来就是gay。作者认为这种说辞在观念上将直男间的性行为非性化、de-romanticized了，而且这...

大致逻辑结构：人们现在喜欢认为性取向是天生的，这种观点其实固化了身份。这种观念带来的结果是，直男间的性行为一直很常见，但人们解释时却会认为这是具体情境所导致的，而不是他们本来就是gay。作者认为这种说辞在观念上将直男间的性行为非性化、de-romanticized了，而且这...

大致逻辑结构：人们现在喜欢认为性取向是天生的，这种观点其实固化了身份。这种观念带来的结果是，直男间的性行为一直很常见，但人们解释时却会认为这是具体情境所导致的，而不是他们本来就是gay。作者认为这种说辞在观念上将直男间的性行为非性化、de-romanticized了，而且这...

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Soc 135@UCB

交叉性学科思维（社会结构主义核心）：直男间的同性关系引出的种族，性别，民族和宗教等问题，并于正常化和特权交织在一起。分了几章分析美国诸多同性性行为却不被视为gay的直男群体，由此引出纷繁复杂的社会性别心理分析。非常有启发。这类行为在种族问题显著的美国更为常见，若用此理论套用到中国，可能也需要一番变形和本土化。

Soc 135@UCB

神书，给十颗星都不为过。

Soc 135@UCB