Queer theory: Difference between revisions

The term "Queer" itself intentionally remains loosely defined in order to encompass the difficult-to-categorize spectrum of gender, sexuality and romantic attraction. Similarly, queer theory remains difficult to objectively define as academics from various disciplines have contributed varying understanding of the term.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Georgie |title=What is Queer Theory? |url=https://www.perlego.com/knowledge/study-guides/what-is-queer-theory/ |website=Perlego |publisher=Perlego |access-date=18 June 2024}}</ref> At its core, queer theory relates to queer people, their lived experience and how their lived experience is culturally or politically perceived, specifically referring to the marginalization of queer people. This thinking is then applied to various fields of thinking.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Yep |first=Gust |url=http://0-search.ebscohost.com.librarycat.risd.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=e000xna&AN=799901&site=eds-live&scope=site |title=Queer Theory and Communication : From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s) |date=2014 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-1-56023-276-6 |location=Hoboken, New Jersey |language=English}}</ref>{{blockquote|Queer theory and politics necessarily celebrate transgression in the form of visible difference from norms. These 'Norms' are then exposed to be norms, not natures or inevitabilities. Gender and sexual identities are seen, in much of this work, to be demonstrably defiant definitions and configurations.|Jay Stewart<ref name="BergmanBarker">{{cite book |last1=Stewart |first1=Jay |editor1-last=Richards |editor1-first=Christina |editor2-last=Bouman |editor2-first=Walter Pierre |editor3-last=Barker |editor3-first=Meg-John |title=Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders |date=2017 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-51052-5 |page=62 |url=https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019-03-17_5c8df4095641a_christina-richards-genderqueer-and-nonbinary-genders-11.pdf |chapter=Academic Theory |series=Critical and Applied Approaches in Sexuality, Gender and Identity |access-date=8 April 2021 |archive-date=26 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926010649/https://transreads.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019-03-17_5c8df4095641a_christina-richards-genderqueer-and-nonbinary-genders-11.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Bruno Perreau]], the Cynthia L. Reed Professor of French Studies at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], discusses various facets of the French response to queer theory, from the mobilization of activists and the seminars of scholars to the emergence of queer media and translations. Perreau sheds new light on events around [[gay marriage in France]], where opponents to the [[Law 2013-404|2013 law]] saw queer theory as a threat to French family. Perreau questions the return of French Theory to France from the standpoint of queer theory, thereby exploring the way France conceptualizes America. By examining mutual influences across the Atlantic, he seeks to reflect on changes in the idea of national identity in France and the United States, offering insight on recent attempts to theorize the notion of “community”"community" in the wake of [[Maurice Blanchot]]'s work. Perreau offers in his book a theory of minority politics that considers an ongoing critique of norms as the foundation of citizenship, in which a feeling of belonging arises from regular reexamination of it.<ref>{{Cite book|language=English|last1=Perreau|first1=Bruno|title=Queer Theory, The French Response|location=Stanford, CA|publisher=[[Stanford University Press]]|date=2016|isbn=978-1-5036-0044-7|url=http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=27481}}</ref>

* [[Queer archaeology]]

* [[Queer of color critique]]

* [[Queer studies]]

* [[Queer theology]]

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