Heteroseksüelliğin İlanı: 1990’lar Kimlik Politikaları Tartışmalarının Evanjelikler Tarafından Tahribi ve Günümüzde Gerçek Erkek Arayışları

Abstract

Bu makale, ABD’de günümüz Evanjeliklerinde cinsellik söylemlerinin, farklı cinsel kimlik gruplarının eşit haklar mücadelesini yürüten liberal demokratik politikaların bir adım sonrasına geçtiği savını tartışmaktadır. Apaçık bir şekilde heteronormative ve erkek egemen bir toplumsal örgütlenme örneği olan Evanjelikler üstü örtük heteroseksüel tarafgirliği üzerine kurulmuş bir sembolik düzeni alt etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Bu değişimi, Freudyen atababa imgesine bir dönüş olarak görülebilecek ve olumsuz bir anlamda tanımlanmış bir gerçek erilliğin imkansız bir normu olarak yeni erkek fikri etrafında inşa edilmiş psikotik bir heteroseksüellik ifşası olarak tanımlıyorum. Bu yeni erkek figürünün Foucauldcu ve Butlercı iktidar anlayışı çerçevesinden çıktığını ve işlevselliğinin sınırlı dairesinde kalarak, bir kimlik politikası oluşturmanın ötesinde, netameli bir aracılığı yerine getirdiğini öne sürüyorum

Keywords

• Evanjelik Hıristiyanlık, kuir kuramı, liberal demokrasi, gerçek erkek, psikoanaliz, cinsellik

Coming Out as Heterosexual: The Evangelical Subversion of 1990s Identity Politics and the Contemporary Quest for the Real Man

Abstract

This paper argues that the sexual discourses of contemporary Evangelicals in the US represent a move beyond the liberal democratic politics struggling for equal rights for different sexual identity groups. By openly standing by a heteronormative and male dominated form of social organization, Evangelicals aim to overthrow the current symbolic order based on a hidden heterosexual bias. I describe this move as the psychotic coming out as heterosexual, organized around the idea of a new man, the impossible norm of a real masculinity defined negatively which can be seen as a return to the Freudian primal father. I suggest that this new male figure escapes the logic of the FoucauldianButlerian understanding of power by standing in the short circuit of its functioning, thus getting a hold of a sinister agency beyond identity politics

Keywords

• Evangelical Christianity, queer theory, liberal democracy, real man, psychoanalysis, sexuality

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