MDSA02H3 Chapter : Queer Theory
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Queer theory: an interdisciplinary perspective that seeks to disrupt socially constructed systems of meaning surrounding human sexuality. Homophobia: an extreme and irrational aversion to homosexuality and homosexual people. Sexuality: is an enduring emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction toward others based upon their gender or sex. Heteronormativity: describe any of a set of lifestyle norms that hold that people fall into distinct and complementary genders (man and woman) with natural roles in life. Judith butler (cid:149) gender is a bodily performance of discourse. (cid:149) gender only exists because people act as gendered beings. Actions that are supposedly the output of an inner quality called gender are in fact the only force that constitutes any conception of gender in the first place. Before the late 19th century being homosexual wasn"t normal. (cid:149) with the rise of religious, medical and political discourses surrounding sexuality, the notion of homosexuality (and heterosexuality) came to be a coherent classification of people.