Title: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Sexual Citizenship
Abstract:The terms of full membership in society have, in the United States, as elsewhere, been conditioned on citizens conforming to a specific set of sexual norms. Some of these terms of sexual citizenship h...The terms of full membership in society have, in the United States, as elsewhere, been conditioned on citizens conforming to a specific set of sexual norms. Some of these terms of sexual citizenship have been explicitly encoded into U.S. law. These have included, among many others, the historical ban on immigration of homosexuals, criminal proscriptions on the act of sodomy, the now rarely enforced bans on sex outside of marriage, and the still enforced criminal prohibitions on prostitution. Other sexual norms have largely been enforced extralegally through social sanctions. For example, the widespread disapproval of sex by unmarried women in the early twentieth century led to the ostracizing of unmarried pregnant women from polite society.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-07-31
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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