{"id":1780,"date":"2013-12-18T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T16:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/?page_id=1780"},"modified":"2015-03-15T02:26:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T02:26:07","slug":"week-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/courses\/queer-theory\/weekly-work\/week-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 09: Queer Theory and Gender Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"

This final chapter is where all the theory has been leading. For me, it’s what this whole book has been about. Gender stereotypes cause real, profound, and pervasive social suffering and hardship. The suffering is no less real because we don’t always see the issue. It’s time we organized to stop it. It’s time we put theory into action.
\n—Riki Wilchins, Queer Theory, Gender Theory<\/em> (141)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Required Readings<\/h3>\n

Wilchins Queer Theory<\/em>, Ch. 11 \u201cButler and the Problem of Identity\u201d (123-139), http:\/\/www.theory.org.uk\/ctr-butl.htm<\/a> ; Ch. 12 \u201cGenderPAC and Gender Rights\u201d (141-157), http:\/\/www.glbtq.com\/social-sciences\/gender_public_advocacy.html<\/a> ;
\nWilchins, \u201cEighteen Things You Don’t Say to a Transsexual<\/a>\u201d
\nSalih, Introduction \u201cBodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions (1990)\u201d (90-94) [Moodle2<\/a>]
\nSalih, Preface [to second edition of Gender Trouble<\/em>] (94-103) [Moodle2<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Graduate Readings [Moodle2<\/a>]:
\nSalih, The Judith Butler Reader<\/em>: Introduction (1-17)
\nButler, Gender Trouble: <\/em> Preface (pp. ix-xiv), Ch. 1 \u201cSubjects of Sex\/Gender\/Desire\u201d (1-9), Ch. 3 \u201cSubversive Bodily Acts\u201d:
\n\u201civ. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions\u201d (128-141),
\nConclusion \u201cFrom Parody to Politics\u201d (142-49)<\/p>\n

Additional Resources<\/h3>\n