Heterodoxy: Challenging orthodoxies about heterosexuality

Beasley, Chris; Holmes, Mary; Brook, Heather

doi:10.1177/1363460714561714

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“…Having underlined class as determinant of the moral perimeters of heterosexual sexual conduct, Jackson () argues that material class locations—and associated opportunities and constraints—still go ignored. This is why questions of privilege remain critical (Beasley, Holmes, & Brook, ; Borgstrom, ; Hockey, Meah, & Robinson, ). Using education as a key “classing site” through which (heterosexual) divisions are perpetuated, Jackson explains that whilst education has enabled some upwardly mobile women choice in exploring sexuality, this also feeds “sophisticated notions of femininity” which casts negative readings on working class women, single mothers, and so on.…”

Section: Sexuality and The Intersections Of Classmentioning

confidence: 99%

Queer geographies of spatial media

Mearns

2019

Geography Compass

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Digital media scholarship is burgeoning. However, there remains a paucity of queer geographies accounting for hybridity and multi‐directionality of coexisting, variegated and embodied spaces produced through spatial media nor the technologies that enable these media (smartphones, tablet computers, and self‐tracking devices). Bringing together literatures on sexuality and the first and second iterations of the internet, this article extends debate about the uneven and paradoxical queer geographies of location‐aware applications (Tinder and Grindr) and other spatial media now often taken as “composite” of queer cultures globally. The article encourages those with interest in the interrelationships between sexualities and space to emphasise further the historical, cultural, and political specificities of the places in which these diverse media are designed, developed, and consumed. The purpose of doing so, I contend, is to deepen knowledge of heightened commercialisation whilst unravelling complex questions of data ownership, privacy and cultural norms that could exacerbate disparities in sexual citizenship.

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Section: Sexuality and The Intersections Of Classmentioning

confidence: 99%

Queer geographies of spatial media

Mearns

2019

Geography Compass

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“…My concern is with how this early work deploys some transgender identities to critique the heterosexual matrix specifically in terms of a universalised normative 'cissexuality' (Beasley, Holmes and Brook 2015). To demonstrate this I first consider what performativity 'is' and second the materiality of the subject in relation to a universalising of gender.…”

Section: The Bodies That Mattermentioning

confidence: 99%

‘I, Robot?’ Or how transgender subjects are dehumanised

O’Shea

2018

Culture and Organization

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In this essay I focus on the earlier works of Judith Butler to discuss her understanding of gender theory and moreover do so in relation to people who are transgender. Transgender folk are important to Butler's early work but I contend that her allegorical use of them does not do justice to their precarious lives. I relate my discussion to existing work in organizational studies concerned both with Butler and trans folk and argue that Butler's concept of performativity should be (re)read alongside her other concerns with embodiment and universality to argue that, at least in relation to transgender folk, her work needs to be extended to consider issues of dysphoria in order to explain why some gender identities are refused and made abject. 'I, Robot?' Or how Transgender Subjects are Dehumanised. 2017 was not a good year to be transgender in the UK. The UK media printed a lot of transphobic articles and from October did so at the rate of at least 1 per day (Barker 2017). The long awaited revisions to the Gender Recognition Act was 'kicked in to the long grass' (Duffy 2017) meaning that transgender people still do not have the right to self-identification. From my personal perspective things did not seem to get any worse but equally no better than previous years. In 2017 one of my friends and her girlfriend were violently assaulted and hospitalised; another committed suicide. I have lost a friend to suicide every year since 2014; whilst internet sites like TDoR document the horrific extent of transphobic murders annually what tends to be glossed are the horrific number of suicides. I was on the receiving end of verbal abuse regularly and sometimes physical and sexual assault albeit nothing that required a hospital visit in 2017, unlike previous years. I lost count of the incidents of name calling, finger pointing, stupid comments early in the year as there were so many. But I get up and go out in public each day despite knowing that I may well be the victim of verbal abuse, or worse, that day. And I will repeat this every single day for the rest of my life. That's the thing you do to survive if you're transgender-you pretend. You pretend that being called a 'freak' for the 987th time no longer hurts, and you weren't fazed by the idiots who spat in your face, or by the women how grabbed your crotch 'to check'. You pretend you have no feelings and none of this hurts, ever. You pretend to be a robot just to survive. And if you cannot? Suicide? The suicide rate for trans people is shockingly high. I see my NHS gender consultant 4 times a year and each time I'm asked about suicidal ideation, sometimes I lie. I'm a non-binary trans person 4 years in to my NHS 'transition'-I, robot? In this essay I consider how the lives of many transgender folk are made unliveable in a heterosexual matrix that dehumanises non-conforming genders. It is particularly important that we consider this now as more and more people identify as transgender annually. This increase in numbers will result in more unliveable lives until we reconsider ...

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“…While queer theory has frequently linked heterosexuality to heteronormativity (Warner, 1993(Warner, , 1999, the two terms can be conflated in queer analyses (Beasley, 2015;Beasley et al, 2015). At this point, it is vital to return to Warner's (1993) work on heteronormativity to remind ourselves that while heterosexuality and heteronormativity are interconnected, they are not interminably bonded to each other.…”

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“…One reason for this neglect might be that queer theory is often used to conceptualize a negative link between heteronormativity and heterosexuality (Beasley, Holmes & Brook, 2015). Admittedly, there is good reason why MOS scholars do this; after all, MOS research consistently shows how heteronormativity constrains how LGBT people can live meaningful lives in and outside the workplace (Bowring & Brewis, 2009;Ozturk & Rumens, 2014;Ward & Winstanley, 2003).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this scenario, queer theorists miss opportunities to explore how heterosexuality can be queered, that is to deprive heterosexuality of its status as 'normal' and examine the non-normative alignments between heterosexuality and heteronormativity. Relatedly, Beasley et al (2015) argue that scholarly deployments of queer theory can conflate heterosexuality with heteronormativity by repeatedly demonstrating how non-normative sexualities are associated with LGBT subjects and not heterosexuals, leaving little headroom to imagine how many heterosexuals do not and cannot stand shoulder to shoulder as the guardians of heteronormativity. In these situations an unhelpful heterosexual/queer binary can be reproduced (Cohen, 1997), that nullifies queer theory's anti-normative political impulse which, in turn, works against Warner's original proposition that queer is 'itself against the normal rather than the heterosexual ' (1993, p. 26).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Queering Queer Theory in Management and Organization Studies: Notes toward queering heterosexuality

Rumens

Souza

Brewis

2018

Organization Studies

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This article suggests new possibilities for queer theory in management and organization studies (MOS). MOS has tended to use queer theory as a conceptual resource for studying the workplace experience of 'minorities' such as gay men, lesbians and those identifying as bisexual or transgender (LGBT), often focusing on how heteronormativity shapes the discursive constitution of sexualities and genders coded asLGBT. But this deployment is crucial and apposite but it can limit the analytical reach of queer theory, ignoring other objects of analysis such as heterosexuality. Potentially, MOS queer theory scholarship could be vulnerable to criticism about ignoring queer theory as a productive site for acknowledging heterosexuality's coercive aspects but also its non-normative forms. As such, the principal contribution of this article is twofold. First, it proposes a queering of queer theory in MOS, whereby scholars are alert to and question the potential normativities that MOS queer theory research can produce, opening up a space for exploring how heterosexuality can be queered. Second, we show how queering heterosexuality can be another site where queer theory and politics can come together in the MOS field through a shared attempt to rupture sexual and gender binaries, and challenge normative social relations. This article concludes by outlining the political implications of queering heterosexuality for generating modes of organizing in which heterosexuality can be experienced as non-normative and how it might rupture and dismantle heteronormativity.

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Heterodoxy: Challenging orthodoxies about heterosexuality

Cited by 21 publications

References 44 publications

Queer geographies of spatial media

Queer geographies of spatial media

‘I, Robot?’ Or how transgender subjects are dehumanised

Queering Queer Theory in Management and Organization Studies: Notes toward queering heterosexuality

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