POL378H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Gayle Rubin, Sexuality And Gender Identity-Based Cultures, Michael Warner
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Organize hegemonic optimism about citizenship and the national future. Nation will become a happy racial monoculture made up of one mixed blood. It is practical heterosexuality that guarantees the monocultural nation. Improving legal and economic privileges of married couples and parents. Restricting the internet for youth, removing explicit content. Places where queer individuals met --> no way to connect anymore. Heterosexual culture links intimacy only to institutions of private life. By making sex less relevant (only personal), block building of nonnormative. Intimate life is the elsewhere of political public discourse. Heteronormativity is more than ideology, prejudice, or phobia, it is produced in almost every aspect of the forms and arrangements of social life. Modern heterosexuality refers to the relations of intimacy and identification with other persons. Sex is the most intimate communication of them all. Expectation that hetero intimacy / love = happiness. More spaces, modes of feeling that can be experienced and aren"t necessarily birthright.
