Heteronormativity and/as violence: the "sexing" of Gwen Araujo

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 journal contribution
  posted on 18.08.2014, 15:37 by Moya Lloyd

This paper will examine the violence of heteronormativity: the violence that constitutes and
regulates bodies according to normative notions of sex, gender, and sexuality. This violence,
I will argue, requires more than a focus on gendered or sexualized physical harms of the
kinds normally examined when studying violence against sexual minorities or women.
Rather, it necessitates focusing on the multiple modalities through which heteronormativity
performs its violence on, through, and against bodies and persons, including through the
production of certain bodies and persons as inciting violence in their very being. To establish
my argument, I explore the killing in 2002 of trans woman Gwen Araujo and the violence of
the legal strategy (the trans panic defense) used in the legal trials that followed her killing.
Both forms of violence, I suggest, operate in a similar way, albeit through different
mechanisms, to maintain and extend the system of binary morphology that itself entails the
perpetual violent materialization of sexed bodies.

Categories
	Political Science not elsewhere classified
	Philosophy


Keywords
FeminismViolenceTransgender people


History

School
	Social Sciences


Department
	Politics and International Studies


Published in
HYPATIA-A JOURNAL OF FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
Volume
28
Issue
4
Pages
818 - 834 (17)
Citation
LLOYD, M.S., 2013. Heteronormativity and/as violence: the "sexing" of Gwen Araujo. Hypatia, 28 (4), pp. 818-834.
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons (© Hypatia)
Version
AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2013
Notes
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: LLOYD, M.S., 2013. Heteronormativity and/as violence: the "sexing" of Gwen Araujo. Hypatia, 28 (4), pp. 818-834, which has been published in final form at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12015.  This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
DOI
	https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12015


ISSN
0887-5367
eISSN
1527-2001
Publisher version
	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12015


Language
en
Administrator link
	https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/account/articles/9468962



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Categories
	Political Science not elsewhere classified
	Philosophy


Keywords
FeminismViolenceTransgender people

Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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