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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 18:37:48 +0800
From: Belinda Johnston <belindajohnston-AT-netspace.net.au>
Subject: Re: heterosexual matrix



 From Gender Trouble p. 151:

"I use the term heterosexual matrix throughout the text to designate 
that grid of cultural intelligibility through which bodies, genders, 
and desires are naturalized.  I am drawing from Monique Wittig's 
notion of the "heterosexual contract" and, to a lesser extent, on 
Adrienne Rich's notion of "compulsory heterosexuality" to 
characterize a hegemonic discursive/epistemic model of gender 
intelligibility that assumes that for bodies to cohere and make sense 
there must be a stable sex expressed through a stable gender . . . 
that is oppositionally and hierarchically defined through the 
compulsory practice of heterosexuality."  (Gender Trouble 151)

Cheers, Belinda


>Was it Butler or Wittig who coined the term "heterosexual matrix," and in
>which book was this phrase first used?
>
>~Nate
>
>
>
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<fontfamily><param>Palatino</param><smaller>From <italic>Gender Trouble
</italic>p. 151:


"I use the term <italic>heterosexual matrix</italic> throughout the
text to designate that grid of cultural intelligibility through which
bodies, genders, and desires are naturalized.  I am drawing from
Monique Wittig's notion of the "heterosexual contract" and, to a lesser
extent, on Adrienne Rich's notion of "compulsory heterosexuality" to
characterize a hegemonic discursive/epistemic model of gender
intelligibility that assumes that for bodies to cohere and make sense
there must be a stable sex expressed through a stable gender . . . that
is oppositionally and hierarchically defined through the compulsory
practice of heterosexuality."  (<italic>Gender Trouble </italic>151)


</smaller></fontfamily>Cheers, Belinda



<excerpt>Was it Butler or Wittig who coined the term "heterosexual
matrix," and in

which book was this phrase first used?


~~Nate




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</excerpt>



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