SMC219Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Sodomy, Performativity, Judith Butler
7 Feb 2015
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Whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant. There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers to make strange, to frustrate, to delegitimize. Interdisciplinary perspective which seeks to disrupt socially constructed systems over meaning regarding human sexuality use of term queer to claim their own group. Queer theorists work to expose the shortcomings of these labels and show how they. The split of something into two categories. i. e. heterosexuality/homosexuality work to support systems of social power and privilege. Queer theorists argue that it diminishes sexuality. Used to refer to a range of negative attitudes and feelings towards lesbian, gay and in some cases bisexual, transgender people and behavior. Heterosexuality a. b. c. a. b. c. normal/natural loving/monogamous purity/gender clarity abnormal/deviant hyper-sexual/promiscuous perversion/gender blurring (ambiguity) Homosexuality tends to result in a threatening, unsettling sense that things are not quite right with queer characters and personalities.
