Women, Gender, And Sexuality Studies WGSS 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Arab Americans, Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality
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Tuesday, november 15, 2016: image of the modern terrorist tied to the racial and sexual monsters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, construction of the psyche of the terrorist enables normalization. Aggressive heterosexual patriotism: the construct of the terrorist relies on a knowledge of sexual perversity. Queer monstrosity: normalization invites an aggressive heterosexual patriotism. The monster and the terrorist: the terrorist-monster is pure evil and must be destroyed. One category through which a multiform power operates. If the monster is part of the west"s family of abnormals, questions of race and sexuality are part of its figuration. Sense of compassion or loyalty towards parents. Now explicitly tied to the exercise of state power: monster-terrorist is a kind of failed heterosexuality. Reduce complex struggles to western psychic models rooted in the bourgeois heterosexual family. Exclude questions of political and cultural economy. Attempt to master the fear, anxiety, and uncertainty. United states is feminist and gay-safe compared to afghanistan.