Queer Theory

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Tris Prior

Ved Sonia Guzmán

Area of Study: Belonging

Ved Pamela Cohen

The Namesake

Ved Alex Breeze

Exponents

Ved Jawdat Laveeza

Use of the word ¨queer¨

Marginalized sexual identities

Umbrella term

Used to create discourse for a new theoretical school

Sexual ¨deviants¨

Once a derogatory term used against gays/lesbians

Deconstructionism

Post-Structualism

Queer Theory

Personalities

Annamarie Jagose

Author - Queer Theory: An Introduction (1996)

Dianna Fuss

Adrien Rich

Michel Foucault

Teresa de Lauretis

Coined term ¨queer theory¨

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Jack Halberstam

Lee Edelman

Judith Butler

Leo Bersani

Lauren Berlant

Feminism

Challenges to idea that gender is part of one´s essential self

Media

HIV/AIDs

Identity Politics

History

1970s - Deconstructionist begin to apply theory to matters of sexual identity

Emerged from queer/women´s studies

Began in 1990s

Criticism

Racism

Language

Arguments against latest queer terminology

Arguments for latest queer terminology

Role of Biology

Core Concepts

Heteronormativity - normalizing practices/institutions that privilege heterosexuality and discriminates against those outside of this network of power

Sexual/gender identities are unstable, not singular

Focuses on mismatches between sex, gender, and desire

Sexual acts/identities are socially constructed

Overview

A framework for discussing issues related to sexuality and gender

Relationship between power and identity

Manifestations of oppression and privilege

Deconstruction of social norms/taxonomies

Why did these norms/taxonomies come into being?

How did these norms/tasxonomies come into being?

Theory of gender-corrective surgery

Gender ambiguity

Intersex bodies/identities

Theory of cross-dressing

Gay, lesbian and bisexual subjects

Differences between queery theory and gay/lesbian studies

Queer theory expands focus past homosexuality and includes analysis of all sexual acts

Theorisation of ¨queerness¨

Queer readings of texts