What does Butler say about heterosexuality? Is it excluded from social understandings of normativity?
What will be an ideal response?
Specifically, Butler describes a heterosexual matrix in which “proper men” and “proper women” are identified as heterosexual. She argues that the essential unity between biological sex, gender identification, and heterosexuality is not dictated by nature;rather, this unity is an illusion mediated through cultural systems of meaning that underlie our understanding of material, anatomical differences. According to Butler, heterosexual normativity “ought not to order gender” (Butler 1990/2006:xiv; emphasis in original). The subversion of gender performances (e.g., drag performances) indicates nothing about sexuality or sexual practice. “Gender can be rendered ambiguous without disturbing or reorientating normative sexuality at all” (ibid.).
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