Queer theory
Sexuality as construct
Queer theory is an academic framework that challenges fixed categories of gender and sexuality, arguing these are social constructs rather than natural facts.
Emerging from feminist and gay/lesbian studies in the early 1990s, it questions binary distinctions—male/female, heterosexual/homosexual—and examines how power structures enforce "normal" identities.
Her dissertation applies queer theory to Victorian literature.
- gender identityInner sense of self-classification
- deconstructionAnalysis exposing self-contradiction
- social constructionIdea shaped by society
- sexual orientationAttraction pattern by gender
- binariesTwo-element systems
representation · race · camp aesthetics · discourse · class · essentialism · intersex · drag culture · subversion · asexuality · fluidity · genderqueer · semiotics · privilege · transgender · disability · LGBTQ+ rights · subjectivity
Queer theorygenetic determinism
Heredity alone shapes traits
evolutionary psychology · sociobiology · naturalism · dimorphism · born this way
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