Queering Citizenship?

Brandzel, Amy L.

doi:10.1215/10642684-11-2-171

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“…There is a distinct lack of information about how same-sex families are formed and how they function (Millbank 2003). Most of the studies regarding same-sex couples have focused on the legal aspect of the phenomenon and on the public discourse about it (Brandzel 2005;Cahill 2005;Rollins 2005; Rosenfeld and Kim 2005).…”

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Relationships between Gender Role Attitudes, Role Division, and Perception of Equity among Heterosexual, Gay and Lesbian Couples

Shechory

Ziv

2007

Sex Roles

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationships between gender role attitudes, household tasks, and the perception of equity among heterosexual, gay and lesbian couples. One hundred and twenty-four participants (54 heterosexuals, 30 gay men and 40 lesbians) were tested. It was found that same-sex couples had more liberal attitudes toward gender roles than did heterosexual couples. In addition, significant differences were found between the spouses in their responses regarding role division in housekeeping in each group. The responses of heterosexual spouses correlate more closely with each other regarding the role of each of the spouses than was the case for same-sex couples. However, the role division among lesbian couples was more egalitarian than that of heterosexual couples. In addition, heterosexual women consider their married life less equitable than heterosexual men do. Similarly, one of the gay spouses considers the relationship less equitable than the other spouse does. The results are discussed in terms of their relevance to theories of social perception and cultural backgrounds.

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Relationships between Gender Role Attitudes, Role Division, and Perception of Equity among Heterosexual, Gay and Lesbian Couples

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Ziv

2007

Sex Roles

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“…The question of human rights has become the main frame of reference for this area of the LGBTQ movements, with the result that the conflict potential of sexual orientation and identity differences that lay at the heart of early LGBTQ movements has been eclipsed and has led to a sort of "homo -normative" process, especially with regard to the recognition of same -sex marriage (Polikoff, 1993;Brandzel, 2005;Croce, 2015). Indeed, the term "human rights" belongs to the semantic field of universality, which has historically been used by positivist theorists to define the abstract subject of rights -and science -in Western societies since the 16th century.…”

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Fighting about (Sexual) Citizenship: Italy’s “Nature or Culture” Dilemma*

Bellè¹,

Peroni²,

Rapetti³

2016

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Recent public debate in Italy has been noteworthy for its renewed focus on issues of gender and sexual citizenship. The discussion is well summarized and symbolized by two opposing political discourses that have been engaged in a lengthy struggle. On one side stands a neo -conservative Catholic movement that opposes the recognition of LGBTQ relationships and defends "the natural family". On the other side there are the LGBTQ movements, which are claiming full civil, social and sexual citizenship. The present article analyzes this conflict, which was clearly illustrated by two public events held in Rome in June 2015 (Family Day and the Rome LGBTQ Pride). The paper, methodologically based on Critical Discourse Analysis, examines the most relevant political documents (manifestos and press releases) issued by the organizers of the two demonstrations, highlighting the existence of ambivalent discourses on the naturalization of sex and the universalization of social and sexual citizenship.

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“…14 Within the western liberal democratic tradition of citizenship that Hedwig hopes to join, the 'social contract' presumes a universal citizen, a category that reinforces rather than erases gender, racial and sexual hierarchies. 15 By assuming a 'universal' rather than specific citizen, 'citizenship' has historically been an exclusionary category that rather than being able to accommodate differences of gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, religion or other axes of power and identification (Alexander 1994(Alexander , 2005Brandzel 2005;CruzMalavé and Manalsanan 2002;Lister 1997;Somerville 2005;Yuval-Davis 1997). In other words, the social contract is a mechanism of exclusion as much as inclusion: as M. Jacqui Alexander (1994) puts it, 'not just any body can be a citizen'.…”

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“…In other words, the social contract is a mechanism of exclusion as much as inclusion: as M. Jacqui Alexander (1994) puts it, 'not just any body can be a citizen'. Marriage is a key mechanism by which the nation polices its borders and heterosexuality is one of the unspoken norms of national membership (Alexander 2005;Brandzel 2005). Since national belonging implies heteronormativity, in order to enter the US Hansel must undergo gender reassignment surgery and become Hedwig.…”

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Transnational ways of seeing: sexual and national belonging inHedwig and the Angry Inch

Sandell

2010

Gender, Place & Culture

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I argue that transnational ways of seeing help us apprehend the histories of globalization, immigration and imperialism that frame and make legible cultural productions. Focusing on John Cameron Mitchell's 2001 film Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which has been almost universally received as being about transsexuality, this essay argues that the film is equally about transnationality and specifically about how queer identifications and identities are produced in relation to the nation-state. Hedwig explores the limits of national belonging and the pleasures of US popular culture through the lens of sexual and gender identity, with the ambiguity of the Hedwig's body embodying confusion about legal, political and cultural citizenship. The film identifies and critiques the violences of heteronormative national belonging, yet by reading Hedwig alongside the political and legal histories that make its narrative legible, it becomes apparent that the film's popular reception frequently erases the transnational and imperial histories that undergird and produce sexual identities and identification. I argue that cultural practices do not simply reflect national or queer identifications but also produce them. The fissures between the cultural work of the film itself and of its circulation illustrate how despite the mutual imbrication of sexuality and nationality, transsexuality is sometimes more readily apprehended than is transnationality. IntroductionTransnational ways of seeing make visible and produce subjects who can apprehend, the global linkages that precede and make possible territorial formations produced under the sign of the nation-state. Popular culture is central to these processes. John Berger (1972) coined the phrase 'ways of seeing' to argue that visual representations do not only depict images, they also produce looking relations and subject positions for audiences and viewers. Key to his analysis was an understanding that viewing practices are produced within, and in turn reproduce, social relations based on gender, race, sexuality and nation. Bringing a transnational focus to Berger's well-known formulation and relying on Marx's distinction between the 'visible' and the 'seeable', I argue that what we see -and what we apprehend about what we see in popular culture -is an historical and geopolitical, not merely physiological, experience. 1 I use the term 'apprehend' because its multiple meanings -to grasp the importance of something, to arrest somebody, to sense something, and to await an impending disaster with dread -capture the simultaneous acts of cognitive

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Queering Citizenship?

Cited by 85 publications

References 28 publications

Relationships between Gender Role Attitudes, Role Division, and Perception of Equity among Heterosexual, Gay and Lesbian Couples

Relationships between Gender Role Attitudes, Role Division, and Perception of Equity among Heterosexual, Gay and Lesbian Couples

Fighting about (Sexual) Citizenship: Italy’s “Nature or Culture” Dilemma*

Transnational ways of seeing: sexual and national belonging inHedwig and the Angry Inch

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