ANTH 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Judith Butler, Queer Theory, Masculinity
18 Feb 2017
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Homophobic teasing often characterizes masculinity in adolescence and early adulthood. Fag talk and fag imitations serve as a discourse with which boys discipline themselves and each other through joking relationships. Any boy can temporarily become a fag in a given social space or interaction fluidity of fag identity = powerful disciplinary mechanism. Fag discourse is racialized something more than simple homophobia is involved. Sociology of masculinity critical study of men, their behaviors, practices, values and perspectives. Fag could be framed as a type of subordinated masculinity attached to homosexual adolescent boy"s bodies. Queer theory sees sexual power as embedded in different levels of social life; interrogates areas of the social world not usually seen as sexuality. Calls for sexuality to be viewed as a constitutive element of social life. Explore what happens to theories of gender if we look at a discourse of sexualized identities in addition to focusing on seemingly static identity categories inhabited by men.
