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“With impeccable research and detail, Hanne Blank uncovers the fascinating, often hidden, history of heterosexuality. “From its thorough but brisk explorations of sexual orientation’s intersections with sex, gender, and romance, this illuminating study examines our presuppositions and makes a powerful, provocative argument that heterosexuality-mazy, unscientific, and new-may be merely “a particular configuration of sex and power in a particular historical moment.”- Publishers Weekly “The author uses wisdom and wit to substantiate her contention that love and passion are not definable by biology.”- Kirkus Diamond, author of Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love and Desire

Her sweeping synthesis takes on everything from Freud to Larry Craig, expertly weaving this untold history with insight and a refreshing dose of irreverence.”-Lisa M. “Hanne Blank has rendered a meticulously researched romp through the history of ‘heterosexuality’-that pesky orthodoxy still looming over Western culture like smog. “Blank writes with great erudition and humor, so that, even a skeptical (or anxious) reader will be hard-pressed not to find it enjoyable and thought provoking."- Haaretz “Blank’s tenacious research and insightful arguments make clear how malleable the attitudes of the world we live in really are.”-Michelle Kehm, Bust “ Straight …is accessible and engaging, often witty and penetrating in its insights.”- New York Journal of Books “Blank’s work reaches further and deeper into the history of heterosexuality…highly accessible.”- Lambda Lit

“Blank has produced a challenging, clear, and interesting study of how Western views of what it means to be ‘straight’ have changed over the past two centuries and continue to change.”- Library Journal “Wry, witty and thoroughly researched.”- Lavender Magazine “A lively, accessible synthesis of decades of scholarship on the history and sociology of sexuality.”- CHOICE “Using wit and wisdom, Blank substantiates her argument that love and passion are not defined by biology.”- EDGE Publications offers the provocative solution that soon we will move on from our present fixation on the binary to a more fluid understanding.”-Abigail Zuger, New York Times Blank darts from one intriguing, thought-provoking point to another.