Constructing Nature in the Performance of Rural Heterosexualities

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ID4475573
AuthorsJo Little (University of Exeter, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume25
Issue5
Pages851-866
Publication date2007-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d2605
OpenAlexW2038665455
LanguageEN
Citations received32
References cited28

In this paper I respond through an exploration of the construction and performance of rural heterosexuality to recent calls for a more nuanced examination of heterosexualities. Using the notion of 'heteronormativity', I argue that our understanding of the spatiality of sexuality needs to focus on 'ordinary', 'benign' forms of family-based heterosexuality, as well as on more deviant forms. I claim that rural spaces provide important sites for the examination of the coconstruction of conventional heterosexuality and place. I demonstrate aspects of rural heterosexuality in the expectations, values, and practices of sexual relationships. I argue that heterosexual relationships are reinforced and sustained through the distancing of the rural from the urban and through associations between rurality and the romantic positioning of nature as central to both of these tactics

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Distancing · Heteronormativity · Heterosexuality · Human sexuality · Political science · Romance · Rural area · Rurality · Sociology · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Psychology · Rural development and sustainability

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