function in the majority of the normative or refuse to conform towards the ubiquitous standard will endure the consequences by being classified as abnormal and being excluded from the norm. Through the works of Judith Butler (who is influenced by Foucault and Derrida), a novice deconstruction towards the gender binary could point towards how, in actuality, gender operates primarily out of performance. For gender to function within the norm, gender must correlate within heteronormativity.8 Thus all
The Berdache of Early American Conquest Methodological Introduction This paper attempts to link the facet of queer theory that explains gender and sexuality as culturally constructed identities, with the presence of the berdache in the New World at the time of the Spanish conquest. By analyzing the construction of gender and sexuality among the native peoples, in contrast to the ideologies of the Spanish, I found a clash arose which explained, in some sense, the incompatibility of the two
Yanell Sanchez SYA 6018 March 25, 2014 This week’s reading of Roderick A. Ferguson’s Aberrations in Black: Towards a Queer of Color Critique offers a queer of color analysis that poses itself against Marxism, revolutionary nationalism, liberal pluralism and historical materialism, and opts instead for an “understanding of nation and capital as the outcome of manifold intersections that contradict the idea of liberal nation-state and capital as sites of resolution, perfection, progress and confirmation
Yunits. The first portion of this work will deal mainly with the implication of Doe v. Yunits on transgender identity. The second focus will apply queer theory and its application to the case. This part of the paper will give the foundation of how society as well as transgender people become inclusive and exclusive at the same time. A disruption of the learning process Pat Doe v. John Yunits was presented
Black Iris and O’Keefe’s other flowers see the work as a reclamation of femininity and female sexuality, while others go even further in identifying O’Keefe in a lineage of art by queer women, claiming the work “as part of a lesbian tradition extending back to the eighteenth century” (“What do you see”). Platonic Analysis If reading Black Iris as a portrait of female genitalia disguised as flower, the work takes its place on the second rung of the “Ladder of Love.” This second rung involves becoming
studies and even American pragmatist theory (Parker,2001; Seidman,1997), queer theory has become one of the most important theories, which contributes to the research of sociology, arts and organizations. On the one hand, queer theory has been used to study the relations between the sexuality, gender and workplace. On the other hand, by utilizing denaturalized, deconstructive and performative methods to queer the presumptions of the taken-for-granted norms, queer theorists question and disprove the
speaks (but is not limited) to issues of power as it is legitimately positioned around medical and social service practitioners as absolute. Here in lies the strength of the queer theory analysis used by LeFrançois and Diamond as it uncovers specific examples of the use of these power discourses. Holmes et al. (2006) cites Michael Foucault’s words around the idea that the political power discourses in the medical sciences “work[s] to incite, reinforce, control, monitor, optimize, and organize the
counterpart. Such definitions have run into major problems, and nowadays the concept “queer” is used to indicate the fluency of sexual practices and gender performances. Sociological context Since the 1970s, homosexuality has become the topic of an interdisciplinary specialization variously called gay and lesbian, queer or LGBT studies (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender to which sometimes are added QQI: Queer, Questioning and Intersexual). The field is far removed
passive/female," (Mulvey 523). She says that in media, women are presented as objects, while men "control the film fantasy and also emerge as the representative of power," (Mulvey 524). Mimi White discusses a broad range of topics in Ideological Analysis and Television, but the sections The Viewer as Consumer and as Commodity, Ideology in Narrative, and Ideology and Contradiction in the Texts of Television are uniquely important to proving her thesis. In these sections she disputes that media viewers
possibility and cultural traditionalism of our notions regarding gender and sexual identity and the roles of men and women. Hollinger brings together plenty of evidence to back up her points about feminist theory and SF making for a comprehensive essay. Wendy Pearson writes her chapter on SF and queer theory discussing how some people recognise a fundamental