SOC 603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jennie Livingston, Queer Theory, Post-Structuralism
10 Sep 2018
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It"s a field of post-structuralist critical (cultural) theory that emerged in the late 1980s early 1990s out of the fields of women"s studies. It challenges the idea that gender is an ontological entity of the self and examines closely socially constructed nature of sexual behaviour, desires, identities and struggles. Through the film paris is burning we will be exploring some queer issues through an intersectional lens. Paris is burning, dir: jennie livingston (1991) A chronicle of new york"s drag scene in the 1980s, focusing on balls, voguing and the ambitions and dreams of those who gave the era its warmth and vitality. Gender proves to be performance that is, constituting the identity it is purported to be. In this sense, gender is always a doing, though not a doing by a subject who might be said to pre-exist the deed (butler 1990:25). Has to do with how heteronormativity femininity is constructed.
