{"id":1007604,"date":"2023-03-02T15:59:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T15:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unpop.ces.uc.pt\/?p=1007604"},"modified":"2023-03-02T16:02:41","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T16:02:41","slug":"heteronormativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unpop.ces.uc.pt\/en\/heteronormativity\/","title":{"rendered":"HETERONORMATIVITY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The terms<\/span> was<\/span> coined within the field of gender, queer and feminist studies<\/span> first by <\/span><\/span>Michael Warner in early 90s and then re-articulated by Gayle Rubin<\/span> and Judith Butler<\/span>, although the debate on the normativity of heterosexuality was already discussed by feminist philosophers Monique Wittig in France and Adrienne Rich in the United States. The term<\/span><\/span> is now applied <\/span>across many <\/span>hard and<\/span> s<\/span>ocial <\/span>s<\/span>ciences<\/span>. It <\/span>critically <\/span>defines <\/span>all<\/span> material and symbolic discourse<\/span>s<\/span>, practice<\/span>s<\/span> and polic<\/span>ies<\/span> that make heterosexuality something natural, internally coherent, and morally superior to any other sexual identity<\/span>, orientation,<\/span> and behaviour<\/span><\/span>.<\/span> It assumes gender and sexual binary as seemingly natural, as much as natural are considered traditional gender roles.<\/span> As a <\/span>naturalised<\/span> social norm, heteronormativity is also used to identify any sexually conservative narrative \u2013 from the more conservative, <\/span>teocon<\/span>, and authoritarian positions to conservativism within progressive parties and movements \u2013 which openly contrasts the so-called \u201cgender ideology\u201d.<\/span> Heteronormativity and (hetero)sexism are mostly equivalent, the first referring to <\/span>subscribed<\/span> universalised ideal to which everyone must adhere, the second to the discrimination that this imperative engenders. <\/span>By critical intellectuals, activists and parties,<\/span> heteronormativity is invoked when political action based on sex\/gender binary is taken against<\/span> lesbian and gay rights, let alone the rights<\/span> of intersex, <\/span>transvestis<\/span>, and transgender people.<\/span> Nevertheless, a new turn is taking place inside the populist far and extreme right<\/span> movements and parties (like Le Front National in France, Casa Pound and Fratelli <\/span>d\u2019Italia<\/span> in Italy) <\/span>which <\/span>declared themselves as open to the recognition of sexual minorities, <\/span>as long as<\/span> the<\/span>se<\/span> minoritised<\/span> components of the society <\/span>are<\/span> not challenging an idea of the national society as inherently heterosexual.<\/span> In fact, heteronormativity is generally <\/span>mobilised<\/span> against not-heterosexual conduct, <\/span><\/span>unless<\/span><\/span> performed as something which is subordinated to an individual\u2019s heterosexual public life and public stance. Therefore, h<\/span>eteronormativity is identified when<\/span> either<\/span> LGBTQ+ people<\/span> live a \u201cdouble life\u201d or<\/span> they <\/span>are<\/span> reproducing<\/span> heteronormative gender roles<\/span> in their private life<\/span>, regardless their <\/span>more or less openly<\/span> assumed LGBTQ+ identity. Heteronormativity is, in fact, considered as pervasive as any other social norm which regulate social reproduction and societal structures: it is <\/span>interiorised<\/span> and reproduced <\/span>more or less consciously<\/span> by any individual. <\/span>More recently, heteronormativity has been rethought within critical thinking (postcolonial, decolonial, Critical Race Theory, black feminisms) in order to map its intersections with <\/span>other systems of oppression<\/span> – namely those<\/span> inherited from colonialism and slavery<\/span> –<\/span> including<\/span> current border regimes.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ahmed<\/span>, Sara. 2006.<\/span> Queer Phenomenology<\/span><\/i>. <\/span><\/i>Orientations, Objects, Others<\/span><\/i>. Duke University Press.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Berlant, Lauren, and Michael Warner.<\/span> 1998.<\/span> \u201c<\/span>Sex in public.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u202f<\/span>Critical inquiry<\/span><\/i>\u202f24<\/span> (<\/span>2<\/span>):<\/span> 547-566.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Butler, <\/span>Judith. 1990. <\/span>Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>Routledge.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Cohen, <\/span>Cathy <\/span>J. 1997. <\/span>\u201c<\/span>Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: the radical potential of queer politics.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u202f<\/span>GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies<\/span><\/i> 3(4)<\/span>:<\/span> 436\u2013465.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Giametta, Calogero. 2017. <\/span>The Sexual Politics of Asylum. <\/span><\/i>Routledge.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Connell, Raewyn, and Messerschmidt, James. 2005. \u201cHegemonic Masculinity: Rethinking <\/span>the Concept.\u201d <\/span>Gender & Society<\/span><\/i> 19(6): 829\u201359.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mai, Nicola. 2018. <\/span>Mobile Orientations: An Intimate Autoethnography of Migration, Sex Work, and Humanitarian Borders<\/span><\/i>. Chicago University Press.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Morgensen, Scott Lauria. 2011. <\/span>Spaces between Us. Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization. <\/span><\/i>University of Minnesota Press.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rich, Adrienne. 1980<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span> \u201cCompulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.\u201d\u202f<\/span>Signs<\/span><\/i> 5<\/span> (<\/span>4<\/span>):<\/span> 631\u201360.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rubin, Gayle<\/span>. <\/span>1993. <\/span>\u201c<\/span>Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality<\/span>.\u201d<\/span> In <\/span>Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality<\/span><\/i>, edited by <\/span>Carole<\/span> Vance<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Schilt, K<\/span>risten and<\/span> Westbrook, L<\/span>aurel<\/span>. 2009. <\/span>\u201c<\/span>Doing Gender, Doing Heteronormativity: <\/span>\u2018<\/span>Gender Normals,<\/span>\u2019<\/span> Transgender People, and the Social Maintenance of Heterosexuality.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u202f<\/span>Gender & Society<\/span><\/i>\u202f23<\/span> (4)<\/span>:<\/span> 440\u2013464.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wittig, M<\/span>onique.1980.<\/span> \u201c<\/span>The straight mind.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u202f<\/span>Feminist Issues<\/span><\/i>\u202f1<\/span>:<\/span> 103\u2013111.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Giuliani<\/span>, Gaia. 2023. \u2018<\/span>Heteronormativity\u2019<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span> In <\/span><\/span>Populism<\/span>s<\/span> and Em<\/span>otion<\/span>s<\/span><\/span> Glossary<\/span><\/span><\/em>, edited by C<\/span>ristiano <\/span>Gianolla<\/span> and <\/span>Ma\u00edra<\/span> Maga<\/span>lh\u00e3es<\/span> Lopes. <\/span><\/span>Available<\/span> at<\/span> https:\/\/unpop.ces.uc.pt\/<\/span>en<\/span>\/<\/span>gloss\u00e1rio<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div> \n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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