WGST 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Wanda Sykes, Transphobia, Queer Theory

• School: Brock University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1F90
• Professor: Jenny Janke

Document Summary

Key terms: queer theory, heterosexual privilege, socially sancioned homophobia, personal homophobia. 6: sexuality is an organizing principle of social life; not just the property of individuals, wide range of meanings associated with sexualiies and ideniies. 1: emerged in the early 1990"s in literature studies, ilm and cultural studies, gay and lesbian studies and women"s studies. 6. focus: exposing underlying meanings, disincions, and the relaions of power in the larger culture that produced the texts. 7: rejects the idea that sexuality is an essenialist category. 9: a rejecion of individualist agency, a concepion of the producive nature of power, and a quesioning of the terms of poliical acion consitute three of the central elements in this framework. How homophobia structures/underscores masculinity: homophobia is the greatest secret of american manhood (kimmel, 2005). 3: it is the fear of not measuring up, of note being seen as a real" man; sense of contempt.