TY - JOUR
T1 - Fracturing interwoven heteronormativities in Malaysian Malay-Muslim masculinity: A research note
AU - Goh, Joseph N
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - My aim in this article is to problematise the heteronormalised interlacings of citizenship, ethnicity, masculinity, ascendancy, morality, matrimony and religion among Malaysian Malay-Muslim men through queer analyses. The civil partnership of Malaysian Ariff Alfian Rosli caused considerable tumult among many Malay-Muslims in Malaysia, dislodging an entrenched image of heteronormative masculinity. I argue that Ariff?s resoluteness in faith has irrevocably fractured heteronormative familiarities and opened up new avenues for a reconsideration of Syariah legalities on sexuality for non-heteronormative Malaysian Malay-Muslim men.
AB - My aim in this article is to problematise the heteronormalised interlacings of citizenship, ethnicity, masculinity, ascendancy, morality, matrimony and religion among Malaysian Malay-Muslim men through queer analyses. The civil partnership of Malaysian Ariff Alfian Rosli caused considerable tumult among many Malay-Muslims in Malaysia, dislodging an entrenched image of heteronormative masculinity. I argue that Ariff?s resoluteness in faith has irrevocably fractured heteronormative familiarities and opened up new avenues for a reconsideration of Syariah legalities on sexuality for non-heteronormative Malaysian Malay-Muslim men.
UR - http://sex.sagepub.com.ezproxy.lib.monash.edu.au/content/17/5-6/600.full.pdf
U2 - 10.1177/1363460714526317
DO - 10.1177/1363460714526317
M3 - Article
VL - 17
SP - 600
EP - 617
JO - Sexualities
JF - Sexualities
SN - 1363-4607
IS - 5-6
ER -