On the Unconscious Reproduction of Heteronormativity and Possibilities of Practical Criticism

Review of Ann-Madeleine Tietge: Make Love, Don’t Gender?! Heteronormativitätskritik und Männlichkeit in heterosexuell definierten Paarbeziehungen

Authors

  • Barbara Umrath TH Köln

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2020.152

Keywords:

Heteronormativity, Masculinity, Doing Gender, Love, Gender Role

Abstract

How can heterosexually defined couple relationships be conducted without (re-)producing the patriarchal binary gender system? To pursue this question, Ann-Madeleine Tietge combines psychoanalytic theories (of subjectivity) with (de-)constructivist approaches in gender studies and renders them empirically productive in the form of a depth-hermeneutic analysis of problem-centered interviews with couples and individual partners. The particular merit of the study is that it identifies unconscious patterns of the interactive production of gender that undermine heteronormative-critical intentions and draws conclusions for everyday practical possibilities and needs for change.

Published

2020-10-08

How to Cite

Umrath, B. (2020). On the Unconscious Reproduction of Heteronormativity and Possibilities of Practical Criticism: Review of Ann-Madeleine Tietge: Make Love, Don’t Gender?! Heteronormativitätskritik und Männlichkeit in heterosexuell definierten Paarbeziehungen. Open Gender Journal, 4. https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2020.152

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