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Queer Theory
1. The problem of defining “queer”.
v Queer as an adjective originally existed with no sexual connotation – or reference, simply used to mean strange, odd or slightly abnormal.
v In a sexual sense following this, queer became a term associated with “abnormal” sexual preference.
v Queer carried with it into the sexual framework the negative association, it held in standard language use, i. ...
v Alternatively, today “queer” has become a term of “self description”, so that at times queer appears to be a term reserved solely for use by homosexuals to describe homosexuality.
v As much as queer is a difficult concept to define, queer theory is equally intriguing. In broad terms queer theory covers the history of the twentieth century changes in the notion of homosexuality and homosexual sex.
v It also looks at how and why the concept of queer has changed so much over the last few decades. Other aspects of queer theory consider the broader notions of sexuality and the vagueness of concepts like homosexual, heterosexual, gender, sexuality and sexual identity.
v According to one theorist, Halperin (1995) “the more it verges on becoming a normative academic discipline, the less queer, queer theory can plausibly claim to be” i.
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