QUEER THEORY DEFINITION
Perspectives on sexual identities.

COMPREHENSIVE LINK: "Queer Theory": an overview from the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Leeds.

THEORY
 
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Queer is by definition whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant.  There is nothing in particular to which it necessarily refers. It is an identity without an essence.
David Halperin, SAINT FOUCAULT: TOWARDS A GAY HAGIOGRAPHY

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... new queer scholarship tended to totally ignore the work of movement-connected scholars, and to legitimise the new 'queer' scholarship by frequent invocation of postmodern gurus. Odd, of course, that an intellectual fashion which assailed the idea of 'master narratives' was so ready to erect its own intellectual idols, which reached its apotheosis in the use --without any apparent irony--by David Halperin of the title Saint Foucault for his most recent book.
 Dennis Altman, "On Global Queering"

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It's not just the norm of heterosexuality that is tenuous. It's all sexual norms. I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.
Judith Butler

 PRACTICE:

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Angela Smith, "The Abject Female Body: The Photography of  Cindy Sherman"

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Essay on Madonna from a Leeds University student
 
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