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Drawing from ethnographic field work, archival research, and cultural studies methods, Ward examines the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century emergence of a \u201cheterosexual repair industry\u201d\u2014a self-help empire designed to romanticize and ease heterosexual misery while eliding attention to heteropatriarchy and the queer, feminist interventions poised to undo it. In this talk, Ward takes her analysis in new directions, pointing to the global implications of heterosexual misery by analyzing the global \u201canti-gender\u201d (or \u201cgender critical\u201d) movement and the collective anxiety about gender and sexuality that animates it. 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