Women, Gender, And Sexuality Studies WGSS 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Femininity, Heterosexuality, Sexualization
30 Oct 2016
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Femininity was deployed in the service of british colonial norms. Women in suffrage movement sought to contradict this imperial legacy of. Attempted to reconcile opposition between woman and citizen that was characteristic of colonial rule. Family supposed to be the cornerstone of society. Loyalty to the nation as a citizen is colonized within reproduction and heterosexuality. Erotic autonomy has the potential to undo the nation entirely. Heterosexuality is necessary to the state"s ability to constitute and imagine itself. Simultaneously makes it a site of its own instability. recolonization -- the attempts by the state to achieve a psychic, sexual, and material usurpation of the bahamian people"s self determination. Forges a unity between white imperial heteropatriarchy and black heteropatriarchy. Now in neocolonial age, extended to lesbians and hiv infected people. These noncitizens are objects of state surveillance and control. Racialized hierarchies -- boarder policing, and unequal incorporation of the bahamas into a political economy on the basis of serviceability (e. g. tourism)
