SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Heteropatriarchy, Heteronormativity, Heterosexuality
4 Apr 2018
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We often under-theorize the ways heterosexuality produces or enforces normative behaviour. Think about how heterosxuality becomes hegemonic tthroug media and popular culture. Challenge the notion of a single heterosexuaity. Critique how some sexual minorities reproduce heteronormativity themselves = homonormativity. Homophobia : fear of or discrimination against homosexuality/homosexuals/sexual. Heterosexism : favouring and privileging heterosexuals over other sexualities. Heteronormativity : the belief that people fall into two distinct complimentary genders (man and woman) with natural roles in life. It assumes that heterosexuality is the only sexual orientation for only norm, and states that sexual and marital relations are most (or only) fitting between people of opposite sexes. Extends to the practices and institutions that support and promote heterosexuality as normal and natural. Heteronormativity : the institutions, structures of understanding and practical orientations that make heterosexuality seem not only coherent - that is, organized as a sexuality - but also privileged (berland and warner, 2000:312)
