Sexuality: Part II

The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Human Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 475-785

  Thomas, Mary E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"hegemonic structure of whiteness" being strongly worded; Cathy Cohen's warnings, that queer critiques of heterosexuality the risk of assuming that all straight people occupy a sexually privileged position; Complaints of boys 'violence and girls' heterosexual valorizations of boys' strength, desirous attachments to racial difference and racialized fighting; Deconstructing heteronormativity in geography in white hegemony, how racial difference imbues sexual difference; Feminist theories, compulsory heterosexuality (Rich 1980) heterosexual matrix and gender performativity; Lack of theory about racialization of sexuality meaning that Whiteness is often the assumed embodiment of sexual subjectivity; Racializing "Boys are Stupid" and how feminist and popular identity politics of teenage girlhood in US, reduce girls' subjectivities to their sexuality gender identity; Teaching geography undergraduates about sexuality and space, in what is known at midwestern American university as "the Oval"; Unreflective Whiteness and limits of "Queer" identity occlusion of race in sexuality studies; White hegemony and heterosexual matrix in development of sexuality studies in geography

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EID: 84885520023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395839.ch34     Document Type: Chapter

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