View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by UNL | Libraries University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Sociology Department, Faculty Publications Sociology, Department of 6-2009 Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children’s G-Rated Films Karin A. Martin University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub Part of the Sociology Commons Martin, Karin A. and Kazyak, Emily, "Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children’s G-Rated Films" (2009). Sociology Department, Faculty Publications. 160. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sociologyfacpub/160 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Sociology, Department of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sociology Department, Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Published in Gender & Society 23 (June 2009), pp. 315–336; doi:10.1177/0891243209335635 Copyright © 2009 Sociologists for Women in Society; published by SAGE Publications. http://gas.sagepub.com/content/23/3/315 Used by permission. Published online April 21, 2009. Hetero-Romantic Love and Heterosexiness in Children’s G-Rated Films Karin A. Martin and Emily Kazyak University of Michigan Abstract This article examines accounts of heterosexuality in media for children. The authors ana- lyze all the G-rated films grossing $100 million dollars or more between 1990 and 2005 and find two main accounts of heterosexuality. First, heterosexuality is constructed through hetero-romantic love relationships as exceptional, powerful, magical, and transformative.