Queer Theory: An Introduction by Annamarie Jagose

By Annamarie Jagose

The political and educational appropriation of the time period queer over the past numerous years has marked a shift within the learn of sexuality from a spotlight on supposedly crucial different types as homosexual and lesbian to extra fluid or queer notions of sexual id. but queer is a class nonetheless within the strategy of formation. In Queer concept, Annamarie Jagose presents a transparent and concise clarification of queer thought, tracing it as a part of an exciting heritage of same-sex love during the last century.

Blending insights from well-known theorists equivalent to Judith Butler and David Halperin, Jagose argues that queer theory's problem is to create new methods of considering, not just approximately fastened sexual identities reminiscent of heterosexual and gay, but in addition approximately different supposedly crucial notions resembling sexuality and gender or even guy and girl.

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She drew attention to the fact that the women's movement refused to deal with the issue of homosexuality: When we consider all the gains that homosexual women have for decades achieved for the women's movement it can only be regarded as astounding that the big and influential organizations of this movement have up to now not raised one finger to secure for their not insignificant number of Uranian members their just rights as far as the state and society are concerned, (quoted in Lauritsen and Thorstad, 1974:18-19) The mainstream homophile movement's indifference to issues of gender similarly prompted the Daughters of Bilitis to recognise the need to address lesbians specifically instead of subsuming them in the purportedly generic category of homosexuality.

If eroticism and reproduction are seen as possibly separate entities and that [sic] masculine and feminine roles are negated as limiting factors in human development the homosexual person is automatically liberated. (Hawkins, 1975:23) Gay liberation frequently understood itself to be challenging that system which, in representing certain gender roles as natural, stabilised heterosexual privilege. 'To protect the power of straight men in a sexist society', writes Allen Young (1992:29) 'homosexuality becomes prohibited behavior.

318-19) This passage signals an important shift in the theorising of lesbianism and one which continues to inform debates about the political efficacy of queer. Although not calling simply for a gender-specific description of lesbianism, it argues that for lesbians, gender, not sexuality, is the primary identificatory category. Rich does not simply value gender over sexuality. She understands it as the exemplary paradigm for oppression of every sort: 'the power men everywhere wield over women .

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