SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Dualism, Adrienne Rich, Teresa De Lauretis

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Graeme Metcalf

Document Summary

A critical theorist: credited with coining the phrase the queer theory . 1991: edited a special issue of the feminist cultural studies journal differences entitled. A refusal to heterosexuality as the benchmark for all sexual formations. An attentiveness to gender capable of interrogating the frequent assumption that lesbian and gay studies is a single, homogenous group. And an insistence on the multiple ways in which race crucially shapes sexual subjective. Queer theory"s refusal to specify itself has been widely recognized as one of its tactical strengths. *unlike marxism, it recognizes there are multiple sources of inequality (advertising, workplace, ect. ) Queer theory might be thought of less as a thing than and more as a definitional field or network, a zone of possibilities in which the embodiment of the subject might be experienced otherwise. *reading against the grain of the dominant message. Queer theory allows subject to read into own personal fantasies.