Michael Warner and Lauren Berlant

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Michael Warner and Lauren Berlant

• Sex in Public

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Publics

• There are many publics not one public sphere.

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Private / Public

• Sex as it is mediated by publics
• Privacy cloaks the sexualization of national
  membership.
• Sexuality (the social construction of sex) is
  different from sex (in the biological, physical
  sense).

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Heteronormativity

• The assumption of heterosexuality as the norm for
  all sexuality.
• Heteronormative practices Definitions of
  propriety (behaviour) and property (ownership).
• Sex publics Those publics in which dominant
  notions of sexuality are challenged or affirmed.
• National heterosexuality (p. 551)

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Domesticity
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Heterosexual Culture

• Family values (p. 550)
• Policies which organize a hegemonic national
  public around sex (550).
• Intimacy (553) Ideologies and institutions of
  intimay are increasingly offered as visions of
  the good life...
• Normalization (p. 557).