COMM 206 Chapter Notes - Chapter Week 8: Identity Crisis, Post-Structuralism, Act Up
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Week 8 tasmin spargo: foucault and queer theory (pgs 3-42) Divine ordinance, biological nature, or social convention: anthropologist gayle rubin. Sexuality has its own internal politics, inequities, and oppression. Human activity produces any concrete institutional forms of sexuality. Currently: sex is being renegotiated in the exploration of how we understand sex. E. g. in media, medicine, parliament, etc: those defi(cid:374)ed as (cid:862)agai(cid:374)st the (cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373) of hete(cid:396)ose(cid:454)ualit(cid:455)(cid:863) ha(cid:448)e (cid:271)ee(cid:374) fo(cid:396)e(cid:373)ost i(cid:374) e(cid:454)plo(cid:396)i(cid:374)g the politics of sexuality. Foucault: philosopher, historian, activist, gay, died of aids in 1984, analysis of the interrelations of knowledge, power, and sexuality most important intellectual catalyst of queer theory. Queer theory: queer agai(cid:374)st the (cid:862)(cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)al(cid:863, queer theory collection of intellectual engagements w/ relations between sex, gender, and sexual desire, diverse range of critical practices and priorities. Readings of representations of same-sex desire in literature, film, music, images. Analyses of social and political power relations of sexuality. Studies of transsexual and transgender identification, of sadomasochism and of.
