CHAP2-POPULAR CULTURE(QUEER THEORY)

Queer Theory

Paul Burston and Colin Richardson (1995) explain this as it provides a discipline for exploring the relationships between lesbians, gay men and the culture.

Queer Theory

It seeks to locate Queerness in places that had previously been thought of as strictly for the straights. Indeed, part of the project of Queer is to attack the very "naturalness" of gender and, by extension, the fictions supporting compulsory heterosexuality.

Gender Trouble

What was the very influential Book that Judith Butler authored?

Judith Butler

Author of Gender Trouble?

Simone de Beauvoir

His observation of sex that 'one is not born a woman, but, rather, becomes one'.

Simone de Beauvoir

His distinction establishes an analytical difference between biological sex ('nature') and gender ('culture'), suggesting that while biological sex is stable, there will always be different and competing (historically and socially variable) 'versions' of femininity and masculinity.

Biological Sex

This is stable, there will always be different and competing (historically and socially variable) 'versions' of femininity and masculinity.

Judith Butler

She said that sex and gender are both cultural categories.

True

True or False: Judith Butler didn't agree with Simone de Beauvoir Statement about Sex and Gender?

Judith Butler

"One is not born a woman, one becomes one; but further, one is not born female, one becomes female; but even more radically, one can if one chooses, become neither female nor male, woman nor man"

Fashion, Cosmetic, Pageantry, Entertainment

Why do we need to study Queer Theory in Popular Culture? Contribution to what?