Gail Ryver’s Reviews > The Heart of Whiteness: Normal Sexuality and Race in America, 1880-1940 > Status Update

P101. The apparent scientific neutrality of the sexual and temporal discipline urged on married moderns was one of the major ways in which heterosexuality’s embeddedness in relations of power was obscured.
P115. Representations of whiteness as love, heterosexuality as liberty, and marriage as citizenship were profoundly power evasive...

Page 22: “non-normativity can be a position of considerable critical insight, because people whose lives are shaped by their difference from the normal perforce must know a great deal about both their own positions and the ones that oppress them. In contrast, being one of the normal people means being defined by reference to what you already are and do slides easily into the (empirically inaccurate) conviction tha