{"id":1467,"date":"2013-05-16T20:55:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T20:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/?page_id=1467"},"modified":"2013-11-20T15:51:42","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T15:51:42","slug":"week-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/courses\/theoretical-approaches-to-sexuality\/weekly-work\/week-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>QUEER THEORY II<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>Clearly, there is no generally acceptable definition of queer; indeed, many of the common understandings of the term contradict each other irresolvably. Nevertheless, the inflectionof queer that has proved most disruptive to received understandings of identity, community and politics is the one that problematises normative consolidations of sex, gender and sexuality&#8211;and that, consequently, is critical of all those versions of identity, community and politics that are believed to evolve &#8216;naturally&#8217; from such consolidations. By refusing to crystallise in any specific form, queer maintains a relation of resistance to whatever constitutes the normal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>&#8212;Annamarie Jagose, <em>Queer Theory: An Introduction (99)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Required Readings<\/h2>\n<p>Seidman et al. <em>New Sexuality Studies<\/em>, Part 4: Sexual identities, Chs. 23-26 (164-194)<\/p>\n<p>Baumgardner <em>Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics<\/em>, Introduction (3-10), Ch. 2 \u201cWhat is Bisexuality?\u201d (39-68), Ch. 9 \u201cOn Being Entitled: Bisexual Politics\u201d (209-227) (<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.uncc.edu\">Moodle<\/a>)<br \/>\nJagose <em>Queer Theory<\/em>, Ch. 7 (72-83, 93-100)<\/p>\n<p>Mills <em>Michel Foucault<\/em> Introduction \u201cWhy Foucault?\u201d (1-7), Ch. 4 \u201cPower\/knowledge\u201d (67-79), Ch. 5 \u201cThe body and sexuality\u201d (81-95) (<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.uncc.edu\">Moodle<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h2>Additional Resources<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2013\/05\/wordlist.doc\">Sample theoretical glossary<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2013\/05\/week7_journal.doc\">Sample journal entry 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2013\/05\/week7_journal_2.doc\">Sample journal entry 2<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Due This Week<a name=\"due\"><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>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.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2013\/05\/GSwk7qstF11.doc\">Ch. 7 Homework Questions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUEER THEORY II Clearly, there is no generally acceptable definition of queer; indeed, many of the common understandings of the term contradict each other irresolvably. Nevertheless, the inflectionof queer that has proved most disruptive to received understandings of identity, community and politics is the one that problematises normative consolidations of sex, gender and sexuality&#8211;and that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":1440,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1467","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2WAwc-nF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1689,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1467\/revisions\/1689"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}