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Marxist Views on Homosexuality
- Early Marxist thoughts on homosexuality ranged broadly, including views of it as a class or bourgeois decadence.
- These interpretations often contrast with later historicized understandings linking sexuality to capitalism's development.
Sexual Hegemony and Bourgeois Rule
- Sexual hegemony as a concept reveals bourgeois society's control through both repression and moral manipulation.
- Sexuality becomes free-floating in bourgeois rule, requiring nuanced governance strategies distinct from previous eras.
Critique of Normativity in Queer Theory
- Normativity is historically contingent, not a fixed binary dividing normal and queer.
- Chitty critiques relying on normativity as it obscures class struggle and historical cause and effect.