{"id":1793,"date":"2013-12-18T19:44:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T19:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/?page_id=1793"},"modified":"2015-03-15T02:10:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T02:10:26","slug":"week-13-queering-straight-sex","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/courses\/queer-theory\/weekly-work\/week-13-queering-straight-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 13: Queering “Straight” Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"

As many commentators have pointed out, despite the considerable amount of research on ‘sexuality’, heterosexuality remains, for the most part, relatively unquestioned. . . . However, presuming or tacitly accepting that heterosexuality is ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ does not simply make it so. In fact, if, as Foucault and others have argued, sexuality is a discursive construct that takes culturally and historically specific forms, then heterosexuality is no more normal or natural than any other form of sexual relations. —Nikki Sullivan, A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory<\/em> (119)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Required Readings<\/h3>\n

Sullivan, Ch. 7 \u201cQueering ‘Straight’ Sex\u201d (119-135)<\/p>\n

[On Moodle2:<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Hall, \u201cQueer Theories\u201d, \u201cA Query\u201d (109-111)<\/p>\n

McWhorter, \u201cBodies and Pleasures\u201d, Introduction (xiii-xx), Ch. 1 \u201cViews from the Site of Political Oppression: Or, How I Served as an Anchor Point for Power and Emerged as a Locus of Resistance\u201d (1-33)<\/p>\n

Graduate Readings (Moodle2:<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Eng, Halberstam and Mu\u00f1oz, \u201cSocial Text\u201d 84-85 (2005), Introduction \u201cWhat’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?\u201d (1-17)<\/p>\n

Halberstam, \u201cSocial Text\u201d 84-85, \u201cShame and White Gay Masculinity\u201d (219-233)<\/p>\n

Bersani, \u201cAfter Sex\u201d, \u201cShame on You\u201d (91-109)<\/p>\n

\u201cRadical History Review\u201d Issue 100 \u201cQueer Futures\u201d (2008), Editors’ Introduction (1-9); Weiss, \u201cGay Shame and BDSM Pride\u201d (87-101)<\/p>\n

Additional Resources<\/h3>\n

Public art project: Hey, Hetero!<\/a> (Deborah Kelly and Tina Fiveash
\n2002)<\/p>\n

Due This Week<\/h3>\n
    \n
  1. Ten key Terms or concepts in readings<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Two LGBTQIA representations<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Two LGBTQIA issues<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Queer Theory Week 13 Questions on Readings<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Group 5 Presentation: Dana Holland, Stephanie Pruitt, Mari[elena] Barnhill<\/li>\n
  6. Partial draft of paper final due date (5050)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As many commentators have pointed out, despite the considerable amount of research on ‘sexuality’, heterosexuality remains, for the most part, relatively unquestioned. . . . However, presuming or tacitly accepting that heterosexuality is ‘natural’ or ‘normal’ does not simply make it so. In fact, if, as Foucault and others have argued, sexuality is a discursive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1716,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1793","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2WAwc-sV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1793\/revisions\/2257"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}