Gender and heteronormativity in sources since Antiquity

Academic work

Representations and transgressions of the heterosexual injunction

Under the direction of Adrien Bresson, Alice Baudequin and Jonathan Raffin

By questioning heterosexuality as doxa, or as a form of consensual and primordial evidence, the notion of heteronormativity – which considers heterosexuality as a framework and therefore as a social norm – supposes questioning the organization of the framework itself as well as the resistance movements or the evolutions within discourses and practices. The difficulty in defining oneself other than by affiliation or not to a modular norm poses a semantic problem: how to designate “non-heteronormativity” other than by the negative and, implicitly, by the transgression of a heterosexual norm understood as positive? By bringing together contributions from young researchers, this work is an opportunity for an interdisciplinary dialogue on heteronormativity in gender studies, on its theoretical contributions as well as its practical applications in the analysis of sources since Antiquity.

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