MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Queer Theory, Gender Binary, Heteronormativity
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Queer media scholars attempt to understand how media texts, as significant outlets of cultural discourse contribute to the ordering of human understanding surrounding gender, sex, and sexuality. How images and representations of heterosexuality and homosexuality, replicated across media and throughout time, create a binary understanding of sexuality that privileges heterosexuality and marginalized homosexuality. Queer theory: an interdisciplinary perspective that seeks to disrupt socially constructed systems of meaning surrounding human sexuality. Sexuality: an enduring emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction toward others based upon their gender or sex. Americans tend to see sexuality in terms of heterosexuality/homosexuality, however, there is also bisexuality: misrepresents the full spectrum of human sexuality. Individual sexuality is fluid and difficult to categorize and therefore the categories we have for sexuality can never full represent an individual"s actual varied sex drives. There are no actual connections between the words homosexual or heterosexual to the individual sexual drives and practices.
