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 > > > > --- from list french-feminism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- <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 --- from list french-feminism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- </excerpt> --- from list french-feminism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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