Reframing Honour in Heterosexual Imaginaries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774258 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Millicent Churcher (0000-0001-6046-5895, The University of Sydney), Moira Gatens (0000-0001-9952-4813, The University of Sydney) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 151-164 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2019.1635834 |
| OpenAlex | W2956878430 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 10 |
This paper explores the relationship between honour and recognition in the context of normative heterosexuality, and the implications of this relationship for sustaining and transforming problematic sexual norms. Building on recent attempts to move beyond a narrow and restrictive focus on consent as a means of thinking through the ethics of heterosexual sex, we reflect critically on the concept of honour in this domain. Honour, in our approach, is a cluster concept that houses a number of related normative values and affective attitudes, including respect, self-respect, pride, dignity, esteem, integrity, trust, and honesty. We examine how honour is distributed by heterosexual imaginaries in ways that privilege men in the sexual encounter, and argue that part of cultivating ethical heterosexual relations is to imagine a sexual honour code where both men and women see themselves, and are seen by their counterpart, as entitled to sexual respect. To conclude, the paper examines and defends the cultivation of ethical, just, and honourable heterosexual relations as a necessarily embodied, intersubjective, and imaginative endeavour that involves challenges to, and shifts within, multiple imaginaries and (in)sensibilities that cluster to support damaging norms of sexual conduct
Cognitive reframing · Honour · Political science · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Psychology · Gender Studies · Law · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |