Flirtatious geographies: clubs as spaces for the performance of affective heterosexualities

作者: Qian Hui Tan

DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2012.716403

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摘要: This article addresses the (hetero)sexualized, sensuous and affective nature of straight club spaces in Singapore. By attending to theoretical intersections between affect studies feminist perspectives, I argue that clubs are sites for performances heterosexualities may not end up re-inscribing asymmetrical gendered power relations. In so doing, hope contribute growing literature on affectual geographies by expounding numerous technologies which being deployed order incite, transmit sustain (hetero)sexual desires bodies. Flirtatious practices thus give rise to, a result of, political manipulation intensely felt affects. Furthermore, suggest we should overlook how becoming ‘feels like’ because these ‘feelings’ work crystallize subjectivities. Nonetheless, must also be careful discount salience ‘heterosexuality...

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