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A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory
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The social construction of same-sex desire: Sin, Crime, Sickness, Sin, and Sickness as mentioned in this paper is a social construction, and it can be seen as a form of resistance.Abstract:
Contents Introduction 1 The Social Construction of Same-Sex Desire: Sin, Crime, Sickness 2 Assimilation or Liberation, Sexuality or Gender? 3 Queer: A Question of Being, or A Question of Doing? 4 Queer Race 5 Performance, Performativity, Parody and Politics 6 Transsexual Empires and Transgender Warriors 7 Queering 'Straight' Sex 8 Community and Its Discontents 9 Sadomasochism as Resistance? 10 Fetishism(s) and Political Perversion 11 Queering Popular Culture Bibliography.read more
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