Haunting Heterosexuality

The Homo/Het Binary and Intimate Love

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2392723
AutoresPaul Johnson (0000-0003-3342-3504, Durham University, autor correspondente)
Ano2004
Volume7
Fascículo2
Páginas183-200
Data de publicação2004-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSexualities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1363-4607 • E-ISSN: 1461-7382
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1363460704042163
OpenAlexW2097851783
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas17

Changes in the social construction of sexuality and the arrangements of intimate relationships have been seen as the harbinger of greater fluidity in personal sexual identities and a disintegration of the homosexual/heterosexual distinction around which they are configured. Whilst the social and political contexts of sexual and intimate life may have changed, has the binary which underpins and organizes modern sexuality really altered? Using empirical data, from a study of heterosexuality and romantic love, I suggest that sexual identities, and the intimate relationships that depart from them, are founded through, and reiterate, highly rigid and defined borders. The data show that sexuality, far from being experienced as fluid and malleable, is felt as static and unchanging

Heteronormativity · Heterosexuality · Human sexuality · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Sexual identity · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology