Seeing Straight

Seeing Straight is a rewarding—and challenging—book designed to take the young adult from passive acceptance of gender norms and sex roles, through the long and exciting history of awakening of identity, sexuality, dissent, freedom, and into adult respect for the variety of humanity. The volume covers stereotyping and prejudice, sex and gender, queer theory, gender privilege and heteronormativity, what is normal, what is deviant, what is queer and what is courage. The authors emphasize opportunity, empowerment, sex positivity, and the costs of gender and sexual oppression. This book will improve the lives of the students who read it. -- Chris Crandall, University of Kansas
At a moment when sexual politics are playing out in radically new and often contradictory ways, Jean Halley and Amy Eshleman offer us a wonderfully accessible work that centers our attention on the persistent and pervasive entanglements of gender, sexuality, and power. Drawing on real life examples and using an interdisciplinary lens, they have produced a very engaging text that could be used in many undergraduate courses. -- Rafael de la Dehesa, City University of New York
A beautifully written handbook on understanding how systems of power and privilege warp, cloud, and distort human sexual and gender experience. I think the concluding section will save many lives, as the authors offer realistic hopes based on existing social progress. -- Peggy McIntosh, Wellesley College, author of White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack