Citation

Patil V. Socio. Theor. 2018; 36(1): 1-26.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, American Sociological Association, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1177/0735275118759382

PMID

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Abstract

While Judith Butler's concept of the heterosexual matrix is dominant in gender and sexuality studies, it is a curiously aspatial and atemporal concept. This paper seeks to re-embed it within space and time by situating its emergence within colonial and imperial histories. Based on this discussion, it ends with three lessons for contemporary work on gender and sexuality and a broader theorization of sex-gender-sexuality regimes beyond the heterosexual matrix.

Language: en