A Critique of Normative Heterosexuality: Identity,Embodiment, and Sexual Difference in Beauvoir and Irigaray |
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Authors: | OFELIA SCHUTTE |
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Abstract: | The distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality does not allow for sufficient attention to be given to the question of non-normative heterosexualities. This paper develops a feminist critique of normative sexuality, focusing on alternative readings of sex and/or gender offered by Beauvoir and Irigaray. Despite their differences, both accounts contribute significantly to dismantling the lure of normative sexuality in heterosexual relations—a dismantling necessary to the construction of a feminist social and political order. |
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