Queer theory describes the school of thought that deals with sexual identity, human sexuality, and gender. Representations of history and community in queer theory by mitchell, peter australian literary studies, vol. Queer theory in education brings together the most prominent and promising scholars in the field of educationprimarily but not exclusively in curriculumin the first volume on queer theory in education. Queer theory annamarie jagose national library of australia. Professor annamarie jagose is dean of the faculty of arts and social sciences at the university of sydney, having previously held positions at the. Returning to the controversial analytic separation of gender and sexuality that has been prominently theorized as key to distinguishing between feminist and queer theoretical projects, the article traces the influence. What are some of the main advantages and disadvantages of. We spoke to a few queer theory aficionados and came up with this list of 20 mustread queer theory texts.
Queer theory is a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer. Carefully interrogating the arguments of supporters and. Background queer theory libguides at university of. Blending insights from prominent queer theorists such as judith butler and david halperin, jagose argues that queer theorys challenge is to create new ways of. In the book queer theory,i appreciated that jagose acknowledged the possibility that samesex acts do not hold a constant term. Queer theory is actually a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of lgbt studies and feminist studies. Oct 04, 20 queer theory is a rapidly growing field in the critical theory tradition. Blending insights from prominent theorists such as judith butler and david halperin, jagose argues that queer theorys challenge is. Queer theorys origin is hard to clearly define, since it came from multiple critical and cultural contexts, including feminism, poststructuralist theory, radical movements of people of color, the gay and lesbian movements, aids activism, many sexual subcultural practices such as sadomasochism, and postcolonialism. Queer theory grew out of feminism and gender studies in the 1990s in this theory the word queer is not necessarily a synonym for gay but rather a position that rejects conventions or mainstream expressions of all types of behaviour including sexuality and gender. We use your linkedin profile and activity data to personalize ads and to show you more relevant ads.
Hed prefer to think of being queer as less of a static quality and more of a state of mind. This lack of fixity about queerness and its relationship to lgbt and feminist theories, and discourses of class, gender and race jagose 2009, 158 is addressed. This sense of queer theorys builtin obsolescence might be read as evidence less of queer theorys inevitable decline than its transitory and always transformational potential. Feminisms queer theory annamarie jagose, 2009 sage journals. Orgasmology disrupts queer doxa through a renewed emphasis on the materiality of sexual practice.
Queer theory is a rapidly growing field in the critical theory tradition. The first comprehensive presentation of an explicitly transgender theory. Orgasmology by annamarie jagose free download as pdf file. Since even queer theory was primarily founded by white people, he questions whether existing notions of queerness should be destabilized. However, thi boos k doe nos t attemp tto stabilis the e mobil fiele d. Background queer theory libguides at university of illinois at. This is a real limitation because in the current period, queer theory is being rethought due to the rise of transgender identity. An introduction, annamarie jagose provides a clear and concise explanation of queer theory, tracing it as part of an intriguing history of samesex love over the last century, from midcentury homophile movements to gay liberation, the womens movement and lesbian feminism, to the reappropriation of the term queer.
The multiple definitions of queerare examined, to foster an understandingthe positions. It serves as the magicians assistant to whitenesss disappearing act. The age of consent and the ending of queer theory mdpi. To o queer the writerloca, escritor y chicana, in analouise keating, the gloria anzaldua reader, 163175. A onestop, nononsense introduction to the core of postmodern theory, particularly its impact on queer and gender studies. Queer theory originating from feminism, was intended to. Edelmans book doesnt just show us what a queer reading practice should look like for, after all, film. An introduction, in which there is not a single mention of derrida or deconstruction even. In queer theory, annamarie jagose provides a clear and concise explanation of queer theory, tracing it as part of an intriguing history of samesex love over the last century. However, queer theory does not itself tell us much about gender itself.
Feminism meets queer theory indiana university press. How has queer theory influenced the ways we think about gender. English departments and many other disciplines have adopted the principles of queer theory and train their students to read through this lens. Introduction queer as pejorative previously, reappropriated culturally marginal sexual selfidentifications or theoretical model developed out of gay and lesbian studies. Gender and sexual identity transcending feminist and queer. Dec 04, 2011 we use your linkedin profile and activity data to personalize ads and to show you more relevant ads. There are a lot of things that jagose covers in the comparatively short page number she takes. In his perceptive introduction, the editor outlines queer theory as it is emerging in the field of education, its significance for all. It is the outcome of many different influences and sources, including the homophile movement, gay liberation, and lesbian feminism. This sense of queer theory s builtin obsolescence might be read as evidence less of queer theory s inevitable decline than its transitory and always transformational potential. Z wikipedia citation please see wikipedias template documentation for further citation fields that may be required. And before queer theory was even a discipline, poets like audre lorde, who laid the groundwork for different strands of queer theory, anticipated the ways that queer theory would grow alongside literary arts in decades to come. Moreover, at the basis of queer theory there is a new understanding of sex.
List of books and articles about queer theory online. The analysis that comes from queer theory even queer of color critique, then, rests on the. Thankfully, this text is a very clear introduction to queer theory, allowing those of us unfamiliar with the theory, the history, or even the lifestyles discussed a great beginning into a currently vast field. Annamarie jagose feminisms queer theory this article argues that, in contradistinction to its widely promoted ethical openness to its future, queer theory has been less scrupulous about its messy, flexible and multiple relations to its pasts, the critical and activist traditions from which it emerged and that.
Queer theory has been criticized for its failures in the past to adequately address the phenomenon of transgenderidentifying people. The term queer theory was introduced in 1990, with eve kosofsky sedgwick, judith butler, adrienne rich and diana fuss all largely following the work of michel foucault among its foundational proponents. Queer politics and social theory 1993,also makes positive political claims for queer theory, although his analysis is slightly more problematic because he tries to suggest a partnership between queer theory and feminist theory that, to the minds of most lesbian feminists, does not. She gained her phd victoria university of wellington in 1992, and worked in the department of english with cultural studies at the university of melbourne before returning to new zealand in 2003, where she was a professor in the department of film, television and media studies at the. Queer theory is a part of the field of queer studies whose roots can be found in womens studies, feminist theory, and gay and lesbian studies, as well as postmodern and poststructuralist theories. Neither gay nor straight, queer nor normative, male nor female, orgasm shows up everywhere.
Queer used to be a slang word for homosexuals and was used for homophobic abuse. Often examining the intersection of capitalism, gender, heterosexism and the state, queer theory is constantly seeking to break down norms and question the status quo. Indeed suspicion about the ongoing usefulness of queer theory is a better measure of its viability than widespread institutionalization and normalization. This theory goes beyond feminist and queer theory by incorporating the idea of fluid embodiment and lived experience in conceptualizing gender and sexual identity. Queer theory, an introduction annamarie jagose indeed, as an intellectual model, queer has not been produced solely by lesbian and gay politics and theory, but rather informed by historically specific knowledges which constitute late twentiethcentury western thought. Sedgwicks epistemology of the closet 1990 helped inaugurate the field of queer studies by insisting that an understanding of virtually any aspect of modern western culture must be, not merely incomplete, but damaged in its central substance to the degree that it does not incorporate a critical analysis of modern homoheterosexual definition. Annamarie jagose born ashburton, new zealand, 1965 is an lgbt academic and writer of fictional works. In this longawaited work, the queer theorist annamarie jagose demonstrates that attention to orgasm as an object of queer and feminist thought reveals much about gender, agency, history, and modernity. Queer theory identify it as a significan schoot l o f thought, whic h those in pursuit of genera knowledgl shoule bde familia withr i, s to risk domesticating it, an d fixing it in ways that quee r theory resist fixins g itself. Michael warner, in his introduction to fear of a queer planet. By blending insights from contemporary intellectual theories like poststructuralism and from the work of theorists like judith butler, jagose argues. Yet queer is a category still in the process of formation. In particular, it assesses queer theorys tangled, productive and ongoing relations with feminist theory. Yet while there is no shortage of people claiming that queer theory is finished, washedup and over for a particu larly complacent account, see bawer 1996, it is less commonly noted that a sense of queer theory s finitude has animated from the start attempts to specify quite what queer theory is or does.
A journal of feminist cultural studies brought out two queer issues in 1991 and 1994. Currently other queer theorists find themselves housed in departments like english and comparative literature. Queer theory, annamarie jagose melbourne university publishing. Jan 28, 2015 queer theory grew out of feminism and gender studies in the 1990s in this theory the word queer is not necessarily a synonym for gay but rather a position that rejects conventions or mainstream expressions of all types of behaviour including sexuality and gender. Queer theory examines the constitutive discourses of homosexuality developed in the last century in order to place queer in its historical context, and surveys contemporary arguments both for and against this latest terminology. Finally, there is the queer theory of the books subtitle. Annamarie jagose knows that queer theory did not spring fullblown from the head of any contemporary theorist. Article information, pdf download for feminisms queer theory, open epub for feminisms. Jagose reminds us that before, as in todays world, samesex acts were understood and viewed differently in varying contexts, cultures and historical periods. Feminism and the subversion of identity by judith butler, epistemology of the closet by eve kosofsky sedgw. Reclaiming queer is an examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with streetlevel queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s. Orgasmology by annamarie jagose queer theory gilles.
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