Analyzing 10 interviews with women diagnosed with and treated for congenital absence of the vagina, this article theorises the notion of ideal (hetero)relational normality. It explores how the women negotiate, relate to and challenge this notion and examines the normative and bodily work that it calls for in my case study. The article specifically underscores the corporeal dimension of (hetero)...

I draw on my own experiences as a straight feminist geographer to address questions regarding teaching sexualities in geography. First, I look at `sexing’ and `queering’ geography curricula, not only upper level undergraduate and graduate courses that lend themselves to discussions of sexualities, compulsory heterosexuality, and heterosexism, but also lower level undergraduate courses. Second, ...

This work aims to understand a public policy of health equity related to sexualities that deviate from compulsory heterosexuality in a context of democratic crisis. For this, queer theory is used to analyze, in the light of categories such as power, resistance and transgression, what lies behind the discursive context of the health care policies of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and transgender (L...