MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Judith Butler, Social Construction Of Gender, Androgyny
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An interdisciplinary perspective that seeks to disrupt socially constructed systems of meaning surrounding human sexuality. An enduring emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction toward others based upon their gender or sex. A system of inequality that perpetuates a binary understanding of heterosexuality and homosexuality in which heterosexuality is privileged. The process of stigmatizing homosexuality (or any non-heterosexual practice) as abnormal. Although there is no absolute association between a person"s gender and sexuality, media texts often portray heterosexuals as having definite gender roles and homosexuals as having unclear ones. Queer theorists celebrate this sort of gender fluidity as a way to eradicate sexual classification. This ambiguity often results in a certain level of discomfort in mass audiences toward gay and lesbian people. Gender androgyny tends to result in a threatening, unsettling sense that things are not quite right with queer characters and personalities. Queerness and visibility ii: the problems with positive representation.
