SOSC 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality, Heterosexism
12 Mar 2014
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Week 6: wednesday february 12 sexualities & queer politics. Ingraham, one is not born a bride: how weddings regulate heterosexuality (ck) Heteronormativity: the practices and institutions that legitimize and privilege heterosexuality and heterosexual relationships as fundamental and natural" within society . Queer politics entails the possibility of change, movement, redefinition, and subversive performance [233]. Anti-normativity: the problem of categories" and single-issue identity politics queer symbolizes [a] multisited resistance to systems that seek to normalize our sexuality, exploit our labor, and constrain our visibility. : contestations and reconstructions of gender and sexual identities: dont have a choice in the perfomativity bc limited in the large structure in way we chose, options, etc. Freedom or assimilation: gays and lesbians have maintained long-term committed relationships yet find themselves desiring state sanctioning of their union in order to feel legitimate [ingraham, 161] Bullet one: discourses , how they regulate and normalize sexuality, how discourses map onto your case.
