Same Door, Different Closet: A Heterosexual Sissy's Coming-Out Party
- 1 October 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Feminism & Psychology
- Vol. 2 (3) , 367-385
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353592023005
Abstract
One way to problematize heterosexuality is to acknowledge the tacitly assumed connection between heterosexual preference in males and their `masculinity', i.e. their dissimilarity to women in personality and behaviour. The political implications of the `masculinity' construct are central to what makes heterosexual participation by women a volatile subject for feminists. By analyzing and disentangling the ideological equivocation between men who are not sexually attracted to women and men who are considered to resemble women in personality and behaviour, it is possible to theorize a feminist heterosexuality that would involve women with males but which need not involve them with `men'.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian ExistenceSigns: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1980
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