Author
Warner; Sara ; Warner; Sara
Year
2012
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Language
English
Pages
31
Last Update
01-Nov-2024
Keywords
Gender Studies
Once an sobriquet for eccentrics and a slur for sexual deviants, queer became, in the 1990s, a diacritical term for a wide-ranging political movement and nuanced scholarly critique of normative regimes, phobic policies, and structural inequalities. Queer theory and activism dramatized, often in a spectacularly theatrical fashion, the instabilities and incoherencies inherent in the purportedly stable alignment of biological sex, gender, and sexual orientation. An aggressive, confrontational, and media-savvy mode of engagement, queer stood for dissent against the oppressive mechanisms of normativity and normalization. Very quickly, however, queer came to be defined in opposition to the identity politics of earlier...
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