Heterosexual HistoriesThe history of heterosexuality in North America across four centuries Heterosexuality is usually regarded as something inherently naturalbut what is heterosexuality, and how has it taken shape across the centuries? By challenging ahistorical approaches to the heterosexual subject, Heterosexual Histories constructs a new framework for the history of heterosexuality, examining unexplored assumptions and insisting that not only sex but race, class,