To queer or not to queer: that's not the question.(Queer Utilities:...

College Literature;  February 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......increasing academic commodification of queer theory and inform my sense of how to introduce...presumably read. At the same time that queer theory is coming out on campus, our anti-discrimination...critical trends, it became obvious that queer theory had arrived as the newest, hottest ...

Women on top, boys on the side, but some of us are brave: blackness,...

College Literature;  February 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......critical practices collected under the name queer theory, the roster of the brave has increased. Queer theory has emerged out of (and sometimes broken...studies and feminist theory. Although queer theory in its anti-identitarian strain aims...

Bewitched . . . the 1960s Sitcom Revisited: A Queer Read

Taboo;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......different perspective through the lens of queer theory. If we consider the title of the show...perspectives as seen through the lens of queer theory. These perspectives are the feminist...illumination. In his book A Genealogy of Queer Theory, Turner historicizes queer theoretical...

'Queer Theory' a fun but messy satire

Oakland Tribune;  April 25, 2003 ;     692 words ......weather. In John Fisher's new comedy, "Queer Theory," genders change even faster than our...entertain and enlighten the 18-to-35 crowd, "Queer Theory" had its world premiere last weekend...shown a flair for slapstick. But in "Queer Theory," he takes broad physical comedy to...

Wishing for political dominance: representations of history and community...

Australian Literary Studies;  October 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......contemporary Australia is Annamarie Jagose's Queer Theory (1996). The popularity and authority...Within Australia, the publication of Queer Theory has contributed and contributes to these...identity politics. The narrative of Queer Theory revolves around the binary node of ...

Something queer is going on: sex and methodology in the Middle...

College Literature;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......should be surprised, then, to find that queer theory has for most of the 1990s found ardent...medievalists. Much like the place of queer theory in other disciplines, its presence in...love in pre-modern England, disparages queer theory as a collection of methods and perspectives...

OPEN COLUMN Curator's narrow view precludes inclusiveness

Columbia Daily Tribune;  November 2, 2006 ;     251 words ......Louis. Recently Wasinger targeted "queer theory" - something that gets mentioned...newspaper that he knows nothing about queer theory. In another interview, Wasinger implied that money for teaching queer theory might instead be used to fix the...

Unlikely Alliances? Lesbian-Feminism and Queer Theory

Hecate's Australian Women's Book Review;  May 31, 2002 ;     700+ words ......or so since the academic emergence of queer theory have been characterised by debates not...studies, but also by tensions between queer theory and feminism. Feminist academic Biddy...and gender, has expressed concern that queer theory views feminism as an outmoded dinosaur...

Queer theory

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms;      204 words ...Queer theory, a body of academic writings that has since...sexual orientations and sub‐cultures. Queer theory stresses the historical variability, fluidity...a fuller account, consult Annamarie Jogose, Queer Theory (1996).

"Turnabout" is fair(y) play: Faulkner's queer war story

The Faulkner Journal;  October 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......hostility many in the academy feel towards queer theory: "Today, when it seems every other paper...scholar most credited-or blamed-for queer theory's ascendancy" (Yaffe 26). Typically...experiences) that the application of queer theory to Faulkner's works is "misguided...

Critics slam UM curator over remark Wasinger defends `queer theory'...

Columbia Daily Tribune;  October 11, 2006 ;     618 words ......made a critical comment about teaching "queer theory" courses. The comment came during a...the academic merit of courses such as `Queer Theory'," Wasinger wrote. Wasinger's e-mail...sponsoring courses and programs "entitled Queer Theory and Pick the Queer." "On their face...

Critics slam UM curator over remark: Wasinger defends ?queer theory'...

Columbia Daily Tribune (Columbia, MO);  October 11, 2006 ;     657 words ......made a critical comment about teaching queer theory courses. The comment came during a meeting...the academic merit of courses such as Queer Theory', Wasinger wrote. Wasinger's e-mail...sponsoring courses and programs entitled Queer Theory and Pick the Queer. On their face, these...

Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality....

College Literature;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Calvin. ed. 2000. Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality...Calvin Thomas's Straight with a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality may...of queer studies. On the other hand, queer theory is different from feminism and racial...

My, is that cyborg a little bit queer?

Journal of International Women's Studies;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Based on Stein and Plummer's outline of queer theory in their essay, I can't even think straight : Queer Theory and the Missing Sexual Revolution in...and contrasts different aspects of queer theory (sociological, ideological, political...

LSU to offer queer theory course

University Wire;  August 27, 2007 ;     368 words ......final part discusses the intersection of queer theory and other areas of study like Southern...someone who could teach on the topic of queer theory. Many major universities have LGBT studies...are interested," Hogan said. "Having a queer theory course on the schedule helps ...