ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the theoretical and political aspects that can be brought to light through the concept of heteronormative hegemony. Judith Butler introduces the heterosexual matrix in order to reject the assumption that gender and gendered subjects are the effects of a pregiven sex. Queer theory and politics attempt to reveal and 'equivocate' to the conditions that constitute intelligible forms of identities, rather than referring to identities themselves. Antonio Gramsci's notion of hegemony is indebted to his search for more applicable tools for analysing class power in order to find strategies with which to overcome capitalist society. Hegemony is a dynamic formation of state power that is simultaneously a medium and a result of social struggles within civil society. Because of the naturalization that lies beyond heteronormative violence, the heteronormative violence also remains inaccessible as violence. Finally, heteronormative hegemony only gams power to the extent that subjects adopt it in their everyday lives.
