This book improves the context of critical inquiry into human sexualities and social change. Contributing to broader debates about sexualities, and to knowledge concerning the nature and experience of heterosexualities, it envisages possibilities for theorizing and practicing heterosexuality in more liberatory ways, and relates this analysis to significant debates in gender/sexuality studies and associated policy positions concerning domination-equality, conformity-diversity and normativity-subversion.

Introduction Part One: Unpacking the Monolith 1. Nasty, Boring and Normative? Heterosexuality Within the Conceptual Map of Gender and Sexuality Studies 2. Hetero-Doxy: Conjugality and the Measure of Marriage 3. Unknown Paths: Theorising Changes in Heterosexual Intimacy Part Two: Fields of Practice and Possible Adventures 4. The Challenge of Pleasure in Preventive Health and (Hetero) Sex Education 5. (Not) Everyday Sexual Intimacy: On Quiet Subversions 6. Thrills and Spills: Heterosex, 'Transgressive' Adventures and Social Change. Conclusion: Theorising Social Change from the Realm of the Dominant

Chris Beasley is Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Adelaide. Her books include Gender and Sexuality (2005) and What is Feminism? (1999) for Sage/Allen & Unwin. She has taught on gender and sexuality for over twenty years.

Heather Brook has taught within the women's studies programme at Flinders University of South Australia for eight years and is a Senior Lecturer. Her book Conjugal Rites: Marriage and Marriage-like Relationships (2007) was published by Palgrave.

Mary Holmes is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Flinders University and has taught courses on gender and sexuality there and in the UK over the last decade. She is the author of What is Gender? (Sage, 2007) and Gender and Everyday Life (Routledge, 2009).