“as political economy weakened the authoritative range of primary institutions, heteronormativity became the hegemonic mode for regulating not only sexual practice, but sexual desire as well.”
—roderick a. ferguson
—roderick a. ferguson
“as capital was imagined through the framework of intimacy and racial transgression, a new ethical relation of the self arose to reassert the racial and sexual boundaries of household and neighborhood.”
“in a moment that disrupted those boundaries, that ethic worked to keep desire within the racialized confines of the heteropatriarchal household and the segregated neighborhood.”
“in addition, that racially heteronormative ethic worked to constitute the subject as eligible for citizenship. that work, if done successfully, would culminate in an american citizen who conformed to the racialized boundaries of heteropatriarchal marriage.” 
“as sociologists were concerned w/the transgressions inspired by capital, social reformers during the 1930s & 1940s responded to those transgressions by designing social policy that would restore responsible intimacy to economically, ethnically&racially marginalized communities.”
“[...]restoring responsible intimacy meant eradicating the nonheteronormative formations that obstructed gender&sexual ideals held dear by middle-class whites. restoring responsible intimacy also meant establishing heteropatriarchal households w/n minority communities.”
“allocating benefits on the basis of women’s status as wives and mothers, new deal social policy tied women’s economic security to men’s wages, aid to dependent children (adc), and widow’s benefits.”
“men’s economic security, in turn, was tied to fair wages, unions, and social insurance. social policy worked to arrange men and women within heteropatriarchal family structures.”
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