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Heteronormativity and/as violence : the "sexing" of Gwen Araujo

Verfasst von: Lloyd, Moya
in: Hypatia
Bloomington: 2013 , 818 - 834 S.

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Einrichtung: Ariadne | Wien
Verfasst von: Lloyd, Moya
In: Hypatia
Jahr: 2013
Sprache: Englisch
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This paper will examine the violence of heteronormativity: the violence that constitutes and regulates bodies according to normative notions of sex, gender, and sexuality. This violence, I will argue, requires more than a focus on gendered or sexualized physical harms of the kinds normally examined when studying violence against sexual minorities or women. Rather, it necessitates focusing on the multiple modalities through which heteronormativity performs its violence on, through, and against bodies and persons, including through the production of certain bodies and persons as inciting violence in their very being. To establish my argument, I explore the killing in 2002 of trans woman Gwen Araujo and the violence of the legal strategy (the trans panic defense) used in the legal trials that followed her killing. Both forms of violence, I suggest, operate in a similar way, albeit through different mechanisms, to maintain and extend the system of binary morphology that itself entails the perpetual violent materialization of sexed bodies.
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