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Heterosexual Privilege: The Political and the Personal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Erika Faith Feigenbaum
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Abstract

In this essay, Feigenbaum examines heterosexism as it functions politically and interpersonally in her own experience. She loosely traces her analysis along the current political climate of the bans on same-sex marriages, using this discussion to introduce and illustrate how heterosexual dominance functions. The author aims throughout to clarify what heterosexism looks like “in action,” and she moves toward providing steps to recognize, name, interrupt, and counter heterosexist privilege.

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Hypatia , Volume 22 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Writing Against Heterosexism , Winter 2007, pp. 1 - 9
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Copyright © 2007 by Hypatia, Inc.

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