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QUEER THEORY Dr. J. Amalaveenus Asst Prof of English QUEER THEORY Dr. J. Amalaveenus Asst Prof of English School of Languages and Culture St. Joseph’s College (Auto) Tiruchirappalli-620002

LGBT – Lesbians, gay, bisexual, transgenders Queer - Non-hetrosexual (asexual, intersex, pansexual polyamorous people , crossdressing) Earlier – third gender Q-Umbrella term

PROBLEMS Homophobic (fear or hatred of homosexuality) Trans phobic Social exclusion Family rejection Religious threat Terminology Sexual abuse Unemployment Harrasment/bullying

QUEER THEORY There are two accusation against feminism 1. left out black women 2. left out lesbians-given imp for heterosexualism Lesbianism should be regarded as the most complete form of feminism

In 1990s a less essentialist notion of lesbianism had emerged- QUEER THEORY BREAKS FROM LESBIAN FEMINISM-MAKES NEW ALLEGIANCES WITH GAY MEN RATHER THAN WITH OTHER WOMEN. Queer theory rather than being women centered sees an identity of political and social interests with non hetrosexuals.

Difference between Queer theory and Lesbian Feminism? Queer theory got its influence from post –structuralism. Deconstructing binary opposition Paired opposite is not absolute Since each term in the paring understood by the other. Reverse the hierarchy

Gendered Fluidity Hetrosexual/homosexual is deconstructed The opposition is unstable

Gender Fluidity is about people finding that the line between sexes isn't as solid as they thought.

Judith Butler . ‘S GENDER TROUBLE

In her most influential book Gender Trouble (1990), Butler argued that feminism had made a mistake by trying to assert that 'women' were a group with common characteristics and interests. Rather than opening up possibilities for a person to form and choose their own individual identity

Butler notes that feminists rejected the idea that biology is destiny Butler notes that feminists rejected the idea that biology is destiny. But they accept- masculine and feminine genders would inevitably be built, by culture, upon 'male' and 'female' bodies, making the same destiny just as inescapable. That argument allows no room for choice, difference or resistance. In other words, rather than being a fixed attribute in a person, gender should be seen as a fluid variable which shifts and changes in different contexts and at different times.

In other words, gender is a performance; it's what you do at particular times, rather than a universal who you are. Butler argues that we all put on a gender performance, whether traditional or not, anyway, and so it is not a question of whether to do a gender performance, but what form that performance will take. By choosing to be different about it, we might work to change gender norms and the binary understanding of masculinity and femininity. This idea of identity as free-floating, as not connected to an 'essence', but instead a performance, is one of the key ideas in QUEER THEORY

Body(Female,Male) and Gender All bodies are gendered from the beginning of their social existence (and there is no existence that is not social), which means that there is no “natural body” that pre-exists its cultural inscription. This seems to point towards the conclusion that gender is not something one is, it is something one does, an act, or more precisely, a sequence of acts, a verb rather than a noun, a “doing” rather than a “being”

All the World’s a Stage, and Gender—Merely a Performance

UNDERSTANDING AND ACCEPTANCE FELLOW HUMAN BEING RESPECT THE CHOICE SEEING THINGS AS IT IS RECOGNITION STOPPING VERBAL ABUSE COMING OUT FROM HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA