MDSA01H3 Chapter : Queer Analysis.docx
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Queer theory: interdisciplinary principle that seeks to disrupt socially contructed systems of meaning surrounding human sexuality. Sexuality: an enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction towards others based upon their gender or sex. We tend to perceive sexuality in binary terms, so in terms of homosexuality or hetero sexuality. Queer theorists assert that the traditional understanding of misrepresents the full spectrum of human sexuality. Individual sexuality is unique and difficult to categorize , the limited categories that we use to represent sexual drives cannot fully represent our actual , varied sexual drives. The constructions of homosexuality and hetereosexuality are cultural categories humans use to make sense of their sexuality. Homosexuality and heterosexuality are like masculinity and femininity , they allow for social classification but this essentializes and disempowers groups that follow them. Heteronormativity: the system of inequity derived from the heterosexual/homosexual binary . Diverse set of social practices that function to perpetuate the homosexual/heterosexual binary and.
