SOCI 2P20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Judith Butler, Heterosexuality, Intersectionality
15 Nov 2013
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Race, gender, sexuality and other socially constructed systems of inequality interact and intersect as part of a matric of privilege and oppression. Inequality is maintained through regulation of sexual practices. Consider white supremacist discourse: regulation of heterosexual and intraracial sexuality produces culturally intelligible, racialized, gendered identities. Extreme regulation vs. cultural, family norms and boundaries. Cultural norms = certain forms of living and being comprehensible and others unimaginable. Non-conformists frequently excluded, attacked and denied rights. The construction of the human is always in relation to its outsiders not fully human. Deconstruction (i. e. , white/black, and male/female) directs attention to borders and boundaries. Gendered, racialized, sexualized = historical relations between whites and blacks. Problem that border between the two terms constructs as coherent and stable identities. Power and normalcy legitimated and maintained through sexual relations. Construction of womenhood and manhood delimited by race = rape, lynching. Fears of blacks" political and economic equality rearticulated as fears of interracial sexuality.
