Analysis Of Heterosexualism And The Colonial/Modern Gender System

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The reading Heterosexualism and the Colonial/Modern Gender System by María Lugones stated the idea of heterosexuality is a modern invention which dated back to the late nineteenth century. Therefore racism and heterosexual could not exist without each other even though their views are different towards race, gender, and sexuality. In the meantime, the author adjusted to the point of views brought into mention by Anibal Quijano who created the coloniality of power. Coloniality of power being the “basic and universal social classification of the population of the idea of race [and gender]”. For which the authors realize the concepts of gender and race are similar in some ways. “Understanding these features of the organization of gender in the

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