MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes -Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Rooster Teeth, Judith Butler
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Queer theory: is an interdisciplinary perspective that seeks to disrupt socially constructed systems of meaning surrounding human sexuality. Heterosexuality and homosexuality are cultural constructions like masculine and feminine. They allow for the social classification, essentializing and (dis)empowerment of the groups that identify with them. Sexuality: is an enduring emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction toward other based upon their gender or sex. Heteronormativity (or heterosexism): it refers to a diverse set of social practices that function (1) to perpetuate the heterosexual/homosexual binary and (2) to privilege heterosexuality. Convince people that the distinct categories of heterosexuality and homosexuality do exist even if they are not as easily demarcated as biological sex (men and women and how easy it is to distinguish the two) Coined in 1991 by queer theorist michael warner. Sexual othering: the process of stigmatizing homosexuality (or really and other non- heteroseual practice) in order to privilege heterosexuality.
