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Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)
This session engages critical approaches to the study of heterosexuality, a core topic within a subfield often conflated with sexual minorities. This session invites papers that interrogate heterosexuality not as a given or default, but as a socially constructed, historically contingent, and politically charged identity, desire, and practice. We seek submissions that explore how heterosexuality is regulated, reproduced, and resisted across diverse contexts, paying attention to intersections with race, class, gender, ability, and nation. We welcome theoretical, empirical, and interdisciplinary contributions that advance the sociological understanding of heterosexualities.
Doing ‘Masculine’ Makeup on Digital Platforms: Korean Male Beauty Creators and the Reconstruction of Heterosexual Masculinity - WooBeen Suh, Yonsei University
Holy Men, Vulnerable Men: Embodied Heterosexuality, Male Agency, and the Production of Harm in Haredi Communities - Gloria Fortuna, Columbia University; Alicia Jen, Columbia University; Jessie Ford, Columbia University; Jessica Weissman; Jennifer S. Hirsch, Columbia University
Pathways to Heterosexual Refusal: Collectively Producing New Orientations Toward Intimacy in South Korea - Meera Choi, Harvard University
You Shall Not Divorce: Psychologization of Heterosexual Suffering in Korean Reality Television Divorce Re-Boot Camp - Yun-Hee Cho, Yonsei University; Sujeong Yoon, Seoul National University
Youth Familial Entrapment: How Young Women Navigate Violence, Marriage, and the State - Jamie O'Quinn, California State Univ-San Bernardino