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Queer Theory
The term queer literally means odd and is in alignment with the ideas that are
generally conceived of homosexuality. The Queer Theory, coined by Teresa de
Lauretis of the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1990, is a new branch of
study that has emerged in recent years yielding an entirely different
theoretical perspective. ...
The premises of the Queer Theory grew out of the gay and lesbian studies
movement, which in turn grew out of the feminist studies movement (feminist
theory), but it has since replaced both as the top academic discourse in its
branch of study. The Feminist Theory argued that gender was not a social
construct. ... The Feminist
Theory was the first to make claim that gender was not something innate or
‘true’ on the biological level.
For the first time gender was looked at as a system of signs and signifiers
that were used in order to differentiate between social roles, as a result of
the not necessarily new ideas, but re-discovered ideas of the theory. The
Feminist Theory made two very important contributions to the development of the
Queer Theory. ...
The second contribution that the theory made towards the development of the
Queer Theory was that it insisted that gender was not an essential to an
individual’s identity by separating the biological and social. ...
It was this challenge of gender as part of the individual self that allowed the
Feminist Theory to rupture and cause a major transformation of the term ‘self’
to subject.
Approximate Word count = 1220
Approximate Pages = 4.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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