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Queer theory is the lens used to explore and challenge how scholars, activists, artistic texts, and the media perpetrate gender- and sex-based binaries, and its goal is to undo hierarchies and fight against social inequalities. [30]
Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories is a collection of essays on queer theory and political theory from a queer perspective. It was edited by Shane Phelan and published by Routledge on January 14, 1997, [2] [3] making it one of the first scholarly collections by American political theorists to address the topic of queer politics.
Hocquenghem's Homosexual Desire (1972, English translation 1978) may be the first work of Queer Theory.Drawing on the theories of desiring-production developed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in their Anti-Oedipus (1972), Hocquenghem critiqued the influential models of the psyche and sexual desire derived from the psychoanalysts Jacques Lacan and Sigmund Freud.
Neuroqueer theory is a framework that intersects the fields of neurodiversity and queer theory. [1] It examines the ways society constructs and defines normalcy, particularly concerning gender, sexual orientation, and dis/ability, and challenges those constructions. [ 2 ]
Robert McRuer (born 1966) is an American theorist who has contributed to fields in transnational queer and disability studies.McRuer is known as being one of the founding scholars involved in forming the field of queer disability studies, particularly for a theoretical outlook known as crip theory.
Queering (also called queer reading [1]) is a technique used to challenge heteronormativity by analyzing places in a text that use heterosexuality or identity binaries. [2] [3] Coming out of queer theory in the late 1980s through the 1990s, [4] queering is a method that can be applied to literature, film, and other media.
Articles relating to queer theory, the perspective that questions the perception that cisgender and heterosexual identities are in any sense standard. It revisits such fields as literary analysis , philosophy , and politics with a " queer " approach.
The Cass identity model is one of the fundamental theories of LGBT identity development, developed in 1979 by Vivienne Cass. [1] This model was one of the first to treat LGBTQIA+ people as normal in a heterosexist society and in a climate of homophobia and biphobia instead of treating homosexuality and bisexuality themselves as a problem.