{"id":1769,"date":"2013-12-18T16:11:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T16:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/?page_id=1769"},"modified":"2015-02-11T03:19:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T03:19:52","slug":"week-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/courses\/queer-theory\/weekly-work\/week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 07: Deconstructing Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"

But if Sex is such an obvious and natural fact of bodies, why is it something that children must be taught? Why does it take so much trial and error for sexed knowledge to take hold, for the small discoveries of playing doctor to take on the overwhelming and pervasive meanings we carry into adulthood? What if, like skin color or gender, Sex is both there and constructed? How is such a construction accomplished? —Riki Wilchins, Queer Theory, Gender Theory<\/em> (87)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Required Readings<\/h3>\n

Wilchins, Queer Theory<\/em>, Ch. 9 \u201cPostmodernism and Its Discontents\u201d (97-106)<\/p>\n

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemologies of the Closet<\/em>, “Axiomatic” (22-48); Morland and Willox, Queer Theory<\/i>, Note #8 (summary explanation of Sedgwick’s \u201cAxiomatic\u201d [201])\u00a0[on Moodle2<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Wilchins Queer Theory<\/i>, Ch. 10 \u201cRace-Critical Thought and Postmodernism\u2019s \u2018Second Wave\u2019\u201d (107-121)<\/p>\n

Graduate Readings [on Moodle2<\/a>]:<\/p>\n

Edwards, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick<\/em>, “Sedgwick Status in LGBTI Studies and Queer Theory” (13-15), Ch. 2 “Homosocialities” (32-45), “Queer Taxonomies” (62-76), “After Sedgwick” (142-47)<\/p>\n

Ray, “The Postcolonial Critic: Shifting Subjects, Changing Paradigms” (207-240)<\/p>\n

Due This Week<\/h3>\n
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  1. Ten key Terms or concepts in readings<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Two LGBTQIA representations<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Two LGBTQIA issues<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Queer Theory Week 7 Questions on Readings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    But if Sex is such an obvious and natural fact of bodies, why is it something that children must be taught? Why does it take so much trial and error for sexed knowledge to take hold, for the small discoveries of playing doctor to take on the overwhelming and pervasive meanings we carry into adulthood? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1716,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1769","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2WAwc-sx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1769","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2217,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1769\/revisions\/2217"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}