QUEER THEORY
While there is no critical consensus on the definitional limits of queer–indeterminacy being one of its widely promoted charms–its general outlines are frequently sketched and debated. Boradly speaking, queer describes those gestures or analytical models which dramatise incoherencies in the allegedly stable relations between chromosomal sex, gender and sexual desire. Resisting that model of stability–which claims heterosexuality as its origin, when it is more properly its effect–queer focusees on mismatches between sex, gender and desire.
—Annamarie Jagose, Queer Theory: An Introduction (3)
Required Readings
Seidman et al. New Sexuality Studies Part 4:Sexual identities, Chs. 19-23 (133-172)
Jagose Queer Theory, Chs. 1-6 (1-71)
Piontek Queering, Introduction (1-6), Ch. 1 “Forget Stonewall: Making Gay History Perfectly Queer” (7-29) (Blackboard)
Due This Week
Weekly journal entry including main points from readings, to be submitted electronically, and observations about your own sexuality and understanding of sexuality, to be kept in a private journal.
**Term paper topic proposal and beginning annotated bibliography due**