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Questions from Zulja

Questions from Zulja.

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Questions from Zulja

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  1. Questions from Zulja • The geography of sex and sexuality has historically been more heterosexual than homosexual. In our readings we learn that sexual, racial and gendered identities have been socially constructed, and they have been contested in and through the public sphere and public place. For instance, today we see sexualized ads, advice columns, and other forms of advertised sex that were not visible prior to the Stonewall Riots. • How has the sexual revolution transformed sex and sexuality? • What is ghettoization, or the gay neighborhoods, and how did this space differ for gays, lesbians and other “sexual subjects?” • What were some of the positive and negative aspects of the political mobilization of gay- and sex-rights activism? How did AIDS affect it? • What is “queer space” and “queer theory?” • What contribution has queer theory made to sexuality studies? • How does race, racism, and class provide a geographical perspective to queer theory?

  2. GEOG 347: Sex and Sexuality “Understanding identities- sexual, racial, or gendered- as socially constructed… demands that we understand the spaces in and through which such identities are performed- and how, in turn , the performance of identities…are themselves productive of certain spaces, geographies, or ‘worlds’” –Mitchell, p. 197 “sexuality is inherently spatial”–Mitchell, p. 175

  3. Mitchell Ch. 7- Sex and Sexuality • Sexuality as public • Chauncy- Gay New York (1994): pre-1930s “topography” of public and semi-public spaces of gay sexuality • Gay space constructed through visibility, transgression, resistance • Sexual identity itself as constructed, contested • Straight sexuality, space as constructed too, but hegemonic, normative

  4. Mitchell Ch. 7- Sex and Sexuality • Norms of private sexual freedom, public conformity • Lefebvre- commodification, mediation of sexuality; leisure spots coded as sexual space • Economic role of sexual norms- ensuring reproduction of labor power by nuclear family • Gay neighborhoods, lesbian neighborhoods- liberated zones or gay ghettos?

  5. Mitchell Ch. 7- Sex and Sexuality • Politics of sexuality– St. Patrick’s Day Parade, AIDS Quilt

  6. Oswin- Deconstructing Queer Space • Challenging simple binaries of straight and queer space • Intersectionality- Considering queer subjects as simultaneously raced, classed, and gendered bodies • Gay and lesbian spaces not necessarily transgressive (marriage, domesticity, consumption) • Browne- Queer as “’operating beyond powers and controls that enforce normativity”

  7. Oswin- Deconstructing Queer Space • Queer theory “an approach that interrogates sexual normativities and orthodoxies” • Warner- “Sexuality is not an autonomous dimension of experience” • Need attention to “deviant” heterosexualities

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