{"id":1372,"date":"2008-12-25T12:27:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T17:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2009-03-15T15:35:02","modified_gmt":"2009-03-15T20:35:02","slug":"butlers-definition-of-heterosexual-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/12\/25\/butlers-definition-of-heterosexual-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler&#8217;s definition of heterosexual matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is JB from footnote #6 page 151, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gender Trouble <\/span>1990. Routledge<\/p>\n<p>I use the term <em>heterosexual matrix <\/em>throughout the text to designate that grid of cultural intelligibility through which bodies, genders, and desires are naturalized. I am drawing from Monique Wittig&#8217;s notion of the &#8220;heterosexual contract&#8221; and, to a lesser extent, on Adrienne Rich&#8217;s notion of &#8220;compulsory heterosexuality&#8221; to characterize a hegemonic discursive\/epistemic model of gender intelligibility that assumes that for bodies to cohere and make sense there must be a stable sex expressed through a stable gender (masculine expresses male, feminine expresses female) that is oppositionally and hierarchically defined through the compulsory practice of heterosexuality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is JB from footnote #6 page 151, Gender Trouble 1990. Routledge I use the term heterosexual matrix throughout the text to designate that grid of cultural intelligibility through which bodies, genders, and desires are naturalized. I am drawing from Monique Wittig&#8217;s notion of the &#8220;heterosexual contract&#8221; and, to a lesser extent, on Adrienne Rich&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/12\/25\/butlers-definition-of-heterosexual-matrix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Butler&#8217;s definition of heterosexual matrix&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-gender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2373,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}