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
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https://doi.org/10.17169/ogj.2020.152Keywords:
Heteronormativity, Masculinity, Doing Gender, Love, Gender RoleAbstract
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.
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