SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Teresa De Lauretis, Queer Theory, Critical Theory
13 Jul 2011
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Midterm: stuart hall, difference between active male and passive female, altouzer, interpolation. The term was once used against a group of people(gays) and they simply reclaimed it to mock the people who use it. This term was introduced by teresa de lauretis a critical theorist credited with coining the phrase queer theory. 1991 edited a special issue of the feminist cultural studies journal differences entitled queer theory. Use of term queer theory a refusal of heterosexuality as the benchmark for all sexual formations(idea socially we are assumed to consider heterosexuality is the norm). the queer theory dislodge this assumption of heterosexuality. If you"re not heterosexuality, your considered different, weird etc. attentiveness to gender capable of interrogating the frequent assumption that lesbian and gay studies is a single homogeneous subject. Qt is not only practiced by gays and lesbians. Insistence on the multiple ways in which race crucially shapes sexual subjectivities.
