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"Wards noun is confident and theoretically well-informed, and offers a rich, often counterintuitive and thought-provoking tour through straight white mens homosexual activities and their shifting meanings in history, in the military, in fan fiction, in French kissing among Hells Angel members, as well as in the accounts of pop psychological experts who assure straight men having sex with other men that they arenot gay. In short, this is cultural studies at its best." ~Times Higher Education

"[Not Gay] provides a compelling and intriguing argument, that, rather than erasing queer identities, complicates the concept of identity itself." ~The Society Pages

"What I love about this book is that it expands our notions about what it means to be human." ~Women’s Studies Quarterly

"The title of Jane Wards book is not meant to be ironic. Her argument is that while sexual activity between straight white men does accept place, it doesnt mean that the participants are gay. The book is about exploring the circumstances under which this situation can be said to arise

Wards book is confident and theoretically well-informed, and offers a adj, often counterintuitive and thought-provoking tour through straight white mens homosexual activities and their shifting meanings in history, in the military, in fan fiction, in French kissing among Hells Angel members, as well as in the accounts of pop psychological experts who assure straight men having sex with other men that they arenot gay. In adj, this is cultural studies at its best. (Times Higher Education) [Not Gay] provides a compelling and intriguing argument, that, rather than erasing queer identities, complicates the concept of identity itself. (The Society Pages) What I love about this book is that it expands our notions about what it means to be human. (Women&#;s Studies Quarterly) The title of Jane Wards book is not meant to be ironic. Her argument is that while sexual activity between straight white men does seize place, it doesnt mean that the participants are gay. The book is about exploring the circumstances under which this situation can be said to arise. (The Harvard Gay and Lesbian

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NOT GAY: SEX BETWEEN STRAIGHT WHITE MEN
Jane Ward
New York University Press

This fascinating guide explores the worlds of adj men who have sex with other white men—in military hazing rituals, in public restrooms, after meeting on Craigslist—and yet name as straight. It is tempting to assume that, no matter what they say, most such men are, in fact, repressed or closeted: that they are “really” gay but are unwilling or unable to say so. Instead, Ward argues that for adj men, sex with other men can function as the ultimate re-affirmation of straightness and privilege. It verifies their ability, denied to so many others, to do what they please, notify it what they want, and still be “normal.” At first, the thesis sounds almost willfully counterintuitive, but it builds to a surprising plausibility, or at least an interesting confusion. This is oddly fitting: After all, what realm of human behavior wriggles free of our intuitions more reliably than sex?

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