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Here, there, everywhere: the ubiquitous geographies of heteronormativity
journal contribution
posted on 2009-03-31, 11:49 authored by Phil HubbardFrom its first tentative forays into questions of gay and lesbian residence, the discipline of geography has made increasingly important contributions to literatures on sexual identities, practices and politics. In this paper, I seek to highlight the breadth and depth of recent work on sexuality and space by exploring the contributions made by geographers to the theorisation of heteronormativity. Specifically, this paper explores how heterosexual norms are constructed ansd reproduced spatially, noting the increasing corpus of work which moves beyond examination of heterosexuality's Other (i.e. homosexuality) to consider the multiple desires and bodies that can be accommodated within the category 'heterosexual'. Moving from urban to rural contexts, this paper hence reviews literatures detailing how particular heterosexualities are rendered normal and concludes that the literature is usefully shifting from a focus on identity and community to questions of practice and performance.
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Geography and Environment
Citation
HUBBARD, P., 2008. Here, there, everywhere: the ubiquitous geographies of heteronormativity. Geography Compass, 2 (3), pp. 640 - 658Publisher
© Blackwell Publishing LtdVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2008Notes
This article was published in the journal, Geography Compass [© Blackwell]. It is also available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2008.00096.x The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.comISSN
1749-8198Language
- en