{"id":359,"date":"2011-12-02T11:47:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T09:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/?p=359"},"modified":"2011-12-02T11:47:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T09:47:18","slug":"new-book-and-manifesto-desafios-a-la-heterosexualidad-obligatoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/2011\/12\/02\/new-book-and-manifesto-desafios-a-la-heterosexualidad-obligatoria\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW BOOK (AND MANIFESTO): DESAF\u00cdOS A LA HETEROSEXUALIDAD OBLIGATORIA<\/em> <\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a new book out. It\u2019s very small, only 84 pages, but it\u2019s taken plenty of reading and plenty of thinking, so I thought I\u2019d use this blog to publicise it a little bit. <\/p>\n

The volume is called Desaf\u00edos a la Heterosexualidad Obligatoria<\/em> and it\u2019s part of the enticing collection that Meri Torras is editing, Los Textos del Cuerpo. Mine is number 7 (Barcelona: Ediuoc, 2011, ISBN 978 84 938802 7 9, see its wonderful cover by Lucy Guti\u00e9rrez at http:\/\/cositextualitat.uab.cat\/?p=1298<\/a>). And, yes, it\u2019s a protest against the conceptualisation of heterosexuality as the patriarchal enemy and a call for us, heterosexuals, to reconsider our own identity as we must do under the impact of Queer Studies. And Feminism. And Masculinities Studies.<\/p>\n

I close the book with a manifesto, so here it is, in the original language I used, Spanish.
\nMANIFIESTO
\nHago una llamada para que desparezca:<\/p>\n

*La heteronormatividad hom\u00f3foba que privilegia la heterosexualidad. NO a la homofobia.
\n*La dominaci\u00f3n masculinista (patriarcal, sea hetero o gay) sobre las mujeres (heteros y lesbianas). NO a la misoginia.
\n*El esencialismo en el g\u00e9nero. NO a una sola manera de ser hombre (hetero o gay, etc.) o mujer (lesbiana o hetero, etc.).
\n*El modelo central de la heterosexualidad actual: el amor rom\u00e1ntico. NO a la falsa idealizaci\u00f3n y la mala convivencia.
\n*El falso feminismo. NO a ayudar, NO a volver a casa (las mujeres) como ‘derecho’.\t<\/p>\n

Abogo por una heterosexualidad plural que rechace el patriarcado, el masculinismo, la misoginia, la homofobia, la normatividad sexual y reproductiva. Pido una \u00e9tica heterosexual que promueva la libertad de elecci\u00f3n personal y que realmente la respete; que comparta la plena ciudadan\u00eda con todos y todas; que luche contra la violencia y el abuso; que promueva la afectividad y no s\u00f3lo la sexualidad; que eduque en el placer; que ense\u00f1e a convivir y no s\u00f3lo a enamorarse y que acabe con el falso feminismo habitual entre los heteros, tanto hombres como mujeres. En suma, pido una heterosexualidad que rechace privilegios y que se limite a ser una opci\u00f3n de libre elecci\u00f3n y no una norma, sea dentro o fuera de la propia heterosexualidad. Reinvent\u00e9monos ya.<\/p>\n

The rest of the book, as you can imagine, is an examination of the basic tenets surrounding today heterosexuality both from queer and heterosexual positions in Gender Studies. I find, and here I should start a contest, that anti-patriarchal heterosexuals like myself do not have a label to distinguish us from the recalcitrant, patriarchal straights. I propose using, as Calvin Thomas does, \u2018heteroqueer\u2019 but queers tend to mistrust the label. So far, we have none better and perhaps it\u2019s high time we find one. Others have proposed \u2018dissident heterosexuality\u2019 or \u2018ethical heterosexuality\u2019 but these are not catchy enough\u2026 Any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a new book out. It\u2019s very small, only 84 pages, but it\u2019s taken plenty of reading and plenty of thinking, so I thought I\u2019d use this blog to publicise it a little bit. The volume is called Desaf\u00edos a la Heterosexualidad Obligatoria and it\u2019s part of the enticing collection that Meri Torras is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[212],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria","tag-gender-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/saramartinalegre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}