MCC-UE 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gender Studies, Identity Politics, Political Correctness
15 Oct 2016
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Queer theory has a family- we can think of it as the child of three parents: feminist criticism, gender studies, and the early lgb movement. Tries to correct the mistakes of its parents: the essentializing tendency of feminism (in order to fight for women"s rights, you must define woman ) the devolution of identity politics into new regulatory regimes. While valuing the power of identity politics to overcome social hierarchies and oppression of subaltern groups, queer theorists try to avoid the pitfalls of political correctness, essentialism, and new hierarchies of social identity. Queer" is a term that is, therefore, kept intentionally open; it refers to anything that destabilizes norms of gender and/or sexuality. Text-based queer approach to media might consider: Note: classic hollywood film queer subtext is sometimes intentionally built into the story by filmmakers. Also read into the film where the message is not intended, by audiences (an oppositional reading).
