WGST 2P98 Chapter Notes - Chapter WGST 2P98, Week 5, Cathy J Cohen, Reading Note: Teresa De Lauretis, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Queer Theory

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 2P98
• Professor: Sharlee Cranston- Reimer

Document Summary

Much work needs to be done to make it truly inclusive and welcoming of diversity. Such work will be a great struggle. Continuing practice of racism many of us experience on a daily basis in lesbian and gay. Limits of lesbian and gay political agenda based on a civil rights strategy where assimi- lation, into and replication of, dominant institution are the goals. Seeks to transform the basic fabric and hierarchies that allow systems of oppression to. Challenge offered by the idea of queer politics. Challenging the very way people understand and respond to sexuality. Queer politics has served to reinforce simple dichotomies between heterosexual and eve- Emergence of queer politics and a new politics of transformation. 1990s first use of the term queer. Queer theory stands in direct contrast to the normalizing tendencies of hegemonic sexual- ity.