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As part of the Women’s & Gender Studies Feminist Lecture Series, Jane Ward, Professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Barbara, critiques one of the basic premises of the mainstream LGBT rights movement\u2014that heterosexuality is easier than queerness\u2014by asking for whom, and under what conditions, is straightness easier. <\/p>\n

Drawing from ethnographic field work, archival research, and cultural studies methods, Ward examines the 20th century emergence of a \u201cheterosexual repair industry\u201d \u2014 a self-help empire designed to romanticize and ease heterosexual misery while eliding attention to heteropatriarchy and the queer, feminist interventions poised to undo it. In this talk, Ward takes her analysis in new directions, pointing to the global implications of heterosexual misery by analyzing the global \u201canti-gender\u201d (or \u201cgender critical\u201d) movement and the collective anxiety about gender and sexuality that animates it. Ward conceptualizes \u201cgender critical\u201d projects as expressions of heteroparanoia and psychic dissonance aimed at reconciling the paradoxes of modern heterosexuality, and offers a feminist assessment of these projects’ trajectories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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