Queer Studies

Topics

• 6 : What is Queer Theory/Queer Studies Anyway?
• Heteronormativity
• Construction of Sexuality (New York: Basic Books, 2000)
• Linda Wayne, “Neutral Pronouns: A Modest Proposal Whose Time Has Come”, Canadian
• Woman Studies 24 (Winter/Spring 2005)
• Philosophy
• Alok Menon, “The Difference Between Trans Rights and Ending the Gender Binary”
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• M. Kravitz, “The Gender Binary is a Tool of White Supremacy”
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• 20 Origins of Queer Theory
• Group 1 to facilitate the discussion
• Riki Ann Wilchins, “Foucault and the Disciplinary Society”, in Queer Theory, Gender
• Theory: An Instant Primer (Alyson Publications, 2004), 59-70. [Available here]
• Judith Butler, “From Parody to Politics”, in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion
• of Identity (Routledge, 1990), 194-203. [Available here]
• Riki Anne Wilchins, “Butler and the Problem of Identity”, in Queer Theory, Gender
• Theory, (Alyson Publications, 2004), 123-139. [Available here]
• 27 The invention of Homosexuality
• Group 2 to facilitate the discussion
• Siobhan Somerville, “Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body”
• Journal of the History of Sexuality