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Lowe, Pamela, Boden, Sharon, Williams, Simon, Seale, Clive and Steinberg, Deborah (2007). 'Who Are You Sleeping With? the Construction of Heteronormativity in Stories About Sleep in British Newspapers'. Sociological Research Online 12(5)5 <http://www.socresonline.org.uk/12/5/5.html>.
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@article{lowe2007,
title = {Who Are You Sleeping With? the Construction of Heteronormativity in Stories About Sleep in British Newspapers},
author = {Lowe, Pamela and Boden, Sharon and Williams, Simon and Seale, Clive and Steinberg, Deborah},
journal = {Sociological Research Online},
ISSN = {1360-7804},
volume = {12},
number = {5},
pages = {5},
year = {2007},
URL = {http://www.socresonline.org.uk/12/5/5.html},
keywords = {[No keywords]},
abstract = {In popular British understanding the terms 'sleeping' or 'slept' are often used to mean sex, and (hetero)sex is seen as crucial to sustaining intimate relationships. This study of UK newspapers coverage shows that stories about sleep and sleeping arrangements can be seen to (re)produce heteronormativity through focusing on the (heterosexual) 'marital bed'. The 'marital bed' is constructed as both the physical and symbolic centre of successful heterosexual relationships. Moreover, the maintenance of this symbolic space is gendered with women given primary responsibility. The focus on the 'marital bed' helps to exclude non-heterosexuals from the idea of intimate relationships, by effectively silencing their experiences of sleep and sleeping arrangements. Normative ideas about male and female (hetero)sexualities are drawn on to undermine women's right to refuse sex within the martial bed. In addition, the term 'sleep-sex' is used to reconceptualise stories of rape, minimising the victim's experiences and absolve the perpetrator from full responsibility for the assault. By exploring these articles we can see both how the representation of the organisation of sleep is produced through heteronormativity, as well as how heteronormativity determines whose accounts of sleeping are prioritised.},
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AU - Steinberg, Deborah
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