MDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Queer Theory, Judith Butler
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Queer media scholars attempt to understand how media texts, as significant outlets of cultural discussion, contribute to the human understanding gender, sex and sexuality. Three thematic sections: visibility i, visibility ii, invisibility: queer theory: an overview. Queer theory- interdisciplinary perspective that seeks to disrupt socially constructed systems of meaning surrounding human sexuality. Sexuality an enduring emotional, romantic , or sexual attraction towards others based upon their gender or sex. There is no connection b/w the word heterosexual and an individual"s sexual drives and practices. 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. Heteronormativity or heterosexism the system of inequality derived from the heterosexual/homosexual binary: it refers to a diverse set of social practices that function to perpetuate the heterosexual/homosexual binary. Privilege heterosexual and homosexuality out of necessity. Heternormative social practices maintain the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality out of necessity.
