Re-orientation

Marriage, heteronormativity and heterodox paths

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4367397
AutoresHeather Brooks (0000-0002-2326-9729), Heather Brook (Flinders University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen19
Número3
Páginas345-367
Fecha de publicación2018-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700118754675
OpenAlexW2789024181
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas49

Hetero' (from the Greek, 'different') is most familiar to us in its attachment as a prefix to 'sexuality'. In gender studies, sexuality studies and feminist scholarship, heterosexuality is routinely contrasted with homosexuality, and this contrast is often mapped over the opposition of heteronormative versus queer (ideas, practices, effects). These word-pairs (heterosexual and homosexual; heteronormative and queer) tend to operate dichotomously - that is, in exclusive, exhaustive and hierarchically ordered ways. Taking up Sara Ahmed's work on orientation, this article experiments with an alternative pairing, exploring the potential for admixture or subversion in those dichotomies. 'Heterodoxy' is introduced as a concept that might be usefully contrasted with 'orthodoxy' in sexuality/gender studies - particularly in relation to current debates on marriage. The larger aim of this endeavour is to theorise heterosexuality in more accurate ways, and to seek out understandings of heterosexuality (including its historical relationship with heteronormative marriage) which acknowledge its horrors without foreclosing hope for its future

Heterodoxy · Heteronormativity · Heterosexuality · Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Queer · Queer theory · Scholarship · Sexual orientation · Sociology · Subversion · Gender Studies · History · Law · Marriage and Sexual Relationships