Relating to Queer Theory: Rereading Sexual Self-definition with Irigaray, Kristeva, Wittig, and CixousPeter Lang, 2000 - 231 pages Can queer theory be written by theorists of any sexual identity? Does the act of reading queer theory form queer readers who do not necessarily claim lesbian, gay, or queer identity? In Relating to Queer Theory the author explores the intimate link between sexual identity and theoretical stance in the energizing work of leading contemporary queer theorists. Drawing on a wide range of poststructuralist theory, this study theorizes previously unarticulated ethical relations between queer theory and readers of different sexual identities. Arguing that (queer) reading takes place in a transformative space that is open to readers of any sexual identity, this book interweaves theory and practice of queer reading by staging a series of encounters between queer theory and the different but related field of French feminism. Texts by Irigaray, Kristeva, Wittig, and Cixous are placed alongside those of their queer theoretical commentators in order to re-view current relations between feminism and queer theory. This study reflects critically on intersecting and divergent positions in feminist theory and queer theory, using each theoretical area to reread the other on issues of sexuality, sexual difference, and gender in relation to reading and writing. |
Table des matières
Relating to Queer Theory | 11 |
Reading Writing and the Queer Reader | 37 |
SelfDefinition and Responsibility | 77 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
argue become bisexuality Bodies that Matter Cather's challenge chapter Cixous's writing context Corps lesbien Critically Queer deconstruction Deleuze Derrida discourse discussion dissident sexual identity Elizabeth Grosz encounter engagement with queer erotic essay ethical relations Étrangers Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick exclusion exile explore female feminine feminism feminist and queer feminist theory femme film French feminist theorists Fuss gender and sexuality Gender Trouble Hélène Cixous heterosexual homosexuality Ibid identification and desire identificatory identity category Irigaray Irigaray's Judith Butler Julia Kristeva Kristeva lacunae Lauretis lesbian lesbian and gay lesbian desire lesbian-identified Luce Irigaray masculine melancholy Monique Wittig notion one's performance political position possible Promethea psychoanalytic queer reader queer sexuality question reader relations reading queer theory realm reference relations to queer responsibility rethinking Routledge s/he sense sexual difference signifier specific Straight Mind straight reader straight-identified subversive Teresa de Lauretis term queer textual space thinking transformative Tyler visible Wittig's Wittig's texts women
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