Gender and Queer Theory

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Gender and Queer Theory

Queer theory explores issues of sexuality, power, and marginalized populations (women as others) in literature and culture. A primary concern in queer theory is how gender and sexuality are discussed. Therefore, a critic working in gender studies and queer theory might even be uncomfortable with the binary established by many feminist scholars between masculine and feminine. Many critics working with gender and queer theory are interested in the breakdown of binaries such as male and female, for example, how cultural definitions influence. Queer theory is a field of post-structuralist critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies. Queer theory examines the constitutive discourses of homosexuality developed in the last century to place "queer" in its historical context and surveys contemporary arguments for and against this latest terminology. Queer theory is a diverse field of studies involving many disparate ideas. It's a rapidly expanding body of literature that seeks to answer questions about what is normal, how normal comes to exist, and who is excluded or oppressed by those notions of norms.