SOC359H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Free Trade, Homosexuality, Neoliberalism
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Objectives: sexual politics of homonormativity, homonormativity and homonationalism. Neoliberalism: progress within liberal society means assimilation, claims that an unregulated free market embodies the ideal individual subject and their individual choices, individual, free market, anti-government. Individuals become responsible for their own welfare. Keeps gay politics off the street disassociates gay politics from social structure, so that being gay in the heternormative way means that it gets tied to consumption practices. Centralization of middle class bourgeois western whiteness/masculinity. Whiteness to the representation of gay people in mainstream white culture. Will and grace became this prime example of the class aspiration that these gay white subjects had had professional lives, drank white etc. Fed into this image of gayness tied to consumption. Respectability politics was also a depoliticizing tactic to sanitize blackness for subject ability amongst white. Inclusion into national citizenship: allows one to be patriotic citizen. Homonationalism: argues that within neoliberalism, the nation state is not implicitly heteronormative.
