Hypatia articles from January 2007

Hypatia archives from January 2007

Editors' introduction to writing against heterosexism.(Editorial)
January 1, 2007... You the reader will notice that in this introduction we depart from the convention of using authors' last names only after first mention. Instead, we use first names. Hilde Lindemann, editor of Hypatia, yielded reluctantly to our departure from...

Gay Divorce: thoughts on the legal regulation of marriage.
January 1, 2007... Although the exclusion of LGBTs from the rites and rights of marriage is arbitrary and unjust, the legal institution of marriage is itself so riddled with injustice that it would be better to create alternative forms of durable intimate...

The shadow of heterosexuality.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... In this essay, Cornell first invokes the concept of 'imaginary domain' to challenge the legal legitimacy of heterosexism in any form. She then claims that the imposition of heterosexism on the imaginary is a trauma whose severity can be grasped...

Religion, rights, and relationships: the dream of relational equality.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... This essay provides an analysis of the terms by which the question of extending civil marriage to same-sex couples has been posed, advanced, and resisted in Canada and the United States in the past few years. Denike draws on feminist theories...

Heterosexual privilege: the political and the personal.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... In this essay, Feigenbaum examines heterosexism as it functions politically and interpersonally in her own experience. She loosely traces her analysis along the current political climate of the bans on same-sex marriages, using this discussion...

Gay marriage: an American and feminist dilemma.
January 1, 2007... Gay marriage highlights a contradiction in American national identity: if gay marriage is supported, the normative status of the heterosexual nuclear family is undermined, while if not, the civil rights of homosexuals are undermined. This essay...

Heterosexualism and White Supremacy.
January 1, 2007... Articulating heterosexualism is not to supplicate for gays (that's the work of 'heterosexism' and 'homophobia') but to better understand consequences of institutionalizing a particular relationship between men and women. In this essay,...

Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System.
January 1, 2007... The coloniality of power is understood by Anibal Quijano as at the constituting crux of the global capitalist system of power. What is characteristic of global, Euro-centered, capitalist power is that it is organized around two axes that...

Gay marriage and the war on terror.(MUSINGS)
January 1, 2007... In fall 2004, when Joan and Sally were conceiving this issue of Hypatia, my partner of twelve years and I were in the midst of a ground-shaking crisis in our relationship. We were living separately at the time, and I remember driving through...

The lesbian June Cleaver: heterosexism and lesbian mothering.
January 1, 2007... For many of us, entry into motherhood involves an ambiguous visibility and intelligibility, where our acceptance into mainstream spaces as mothers entails a loss of lesbian difference. Mann explores this loss using the work of two philosophers...

Toward a phenomenology of sex-right: reviving radical feminist theory of compulsory heterosexuality.
January 1, 2007... In this essay, Miriam argues for a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach to the radical feminist theory of sex-right and compulsory heterosexuality. Against critics of radical feminism, she argues that when understood from a...

Who's zoomin' who? A feminist, queer content analysis of "interdisciplinary" human sexuality textbooks.
January 1, 2007... Hundreds of thousands of students in introductory human sexuality classes read textbooks whose covert ideology reinforces dominant heteronormative narratives of sexual dimorphism, male hegemony, and heteronormativity. As such, the process of...

Anti-homosexual and gay: rereading Sartre.(Jean-Paul Sartre)
January 1, 2007... Jean-Paul Sartre's questions about anti-Semitism in Anti-Semite and Jew are ones we should want asked about heteronormativity--what causes it, what sustains it, why is so little being done about it, what should be done. Although the parallels...

The Long Arc of Justice. Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality, and Rights.(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The Long Arc of Justice. Lesbian and Clay Marriage, Equality, and Rights. By RICHARD D. MOHR. Until 1987, the New York Times wouldn't even print the word gay. By 2003, the Times was running gay wedding announcements, complete with...

Reassessing the foster-care system: examining the impact of heterosexism on lesbian and gay applicants.
January 1, 2007... In this essay, Riggs demonstrates how heterosexism shapes foster-care assessment practices in Australia. Through an examination of lesbian and gay foster-care applicants' assessment reports and with a focus on the heteronormative assumptions...

A mere switch or a fundamental change? theorizing transgender marriage.
January 1, 2007... Focusing on the legal cases that have been litigated in the United States, and making references to popular culture, this article considers whether marriages in which one of the partners is transgendered necessarily challenge or necessarily...

Snow White and the Seven "Dwarfs"--queercripped.
January 1, 2007... In this essay, Solis contemplates how queercrip--both homosexual and disabled--readings of four editions of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" might be used to destabilize "normative" sexual identities. His goal is to argue against secrecy and...