queer theory

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LGBT studies subfield academic field critical theory intellectual movement interdisciplinary field theoretical framework

Queer theory is a critical intellectual movement that challenges normative ideas about gender, sexuality, and identity, drawing on poststructuralist and feminist thought to analyze how power shapes social and cultural norms.

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Label	Occurrences
queer theory canonical	2
Queer theory	1
QueerCrit	1

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Target entity: queer theory
Context triple: [On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint, philosophicalTradition, queer theory]

A. Queer
Queer is a semi-autobiographical novel by William S. Burroughs that explores themes of homosexuality, addiction, and alienation in postwar Mexico City.
B. GLQ
GLQ is the three-letter National Rail station code for Glasgow Queen Street, a major railway terminus in Glasgow, Scotland.
C. Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that critically examines gender, sexuality, and women’s experiences in relation to power, culture, history, and social justice.
D. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence is Adrienne Rich’s influential feminist essay that critiques heterosexuality as a political institution and argues for the recognition of lesbian existence and resistance.
E. Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality
Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality is a psychoanalytic work by Sándor Ferenczi that explores human sexuality and development through speculative biological and evolutionary perspectives.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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Target entity: queer theory
Target entity description: Queer theory is a critical intellectual movement that challenges normative ideas about gender, sexuality, and identity, drawing on poststructuralist and feminist thought to analyze how power shapes social and cultural norms.

A. Queer
Queer is a semi-autobiographical novel by William S. Burroughs that explores themes of homosexuality, addiction, and alienation in postwar Mexico City.
B. GLQ
GLQ is the three-letter National Rail station code for Glasgow Queen Street, a major railway terminus in Glasgow, Scotland.
C. Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that critically examines gender, sexuality, and women’s experiences in relation to power, culture, history, and social justice.
D. Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence is Adrienne Rich’s influential feminist essay that critiques heterosexuality as a political institution and argues for the recognition of lesbian existence and resistance.
E. Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality
Thalassa: A Theory of Genitality is a psychoanalytic work by Sándor Ferenczi that explores human sexuality and development through speculative biological and evolutionary perspectives.
F. None of above. chosen

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	LGBT studies subfield ⓘ academic field ⓘ critical theory ⓘ intellectual movement ⓘ interdisciplinary field ⓘ theoretical framework ⓘ
analyzes	cultural texts ⓘ how power shapes gender norms ⓘ how power shapes sexual norms ⓘ institutions ⓘ social practices ⓘ
appliedIn	anthropology ⓘ cultural studies ⓘ education ⓘ film studies ⓘ history ⓘ legal studies ⓘ literary studies ⓘ performance studies ⓘ philosophy ⓘ sociology ⓘ
challenges	binary understandings of gender ⓘ binary understandings of sexuality ⓘ essentialist views of gender ⓘ essentialist views of sexuality ⓘ heteronormativity ⓘ identity politics based on fixed categories ⓘ
coinedBy	Teresa de Lauretis NERFINISHED ⓘ
coinedIn	1990 ⓘ
developedIn	Anglophone academia ⓘ
drawsOn	critical race theory ⓘ deconstruction ⓘ feminist theory ⓘ gay and lesbian studies ⓘ postmodernism ⓘ poststructuralism ⓘ psychoanalysis ⓘ
emergedIn	early 1990s ⓘ late 1980s ⓘ
focusesOn	discourse ⓘ gender ⓘ gender norms ⓘ heteronormativity ⓘ identity ⓘ intersectionality ⓘ normativity ⓘ power relations ⓘ representation ⓘ sexual norms ⓘ sexuality ⓘ subjectivity ⓘ
influencedBy	Adrienne Rich NERFINISHED ⓘ Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick NERFINISHED ⓘ Gayle Rubin NERFINISHED ⓘ Judith Butler NERFINISHED ⓘ Michel Foucault NERFINISHED ⓘ Monique Wittig NERFINISHED ⓘ
keyConcept	anti-essentialism ⓘ deconstruction of identity categories ⓘ heteronormativity critique ⓘ performativity ⓘ queer as a positionality ⓘ
originatedIn	United States NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedTo	LGBT studies NERFINISHED ⓘ critical theory ⓘ cultural studies ⓘ feminist theory ⓘ gender studies ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint → philosophicalTradition → queer theory ⓘ

critical race theory → influenced → queer theory ⓘ

subject surface form: Critical race theory

this entity surface form: QueerCrit

New Queer Cinema → relatedTo → queer theory ⓘ

this entity surface form: Queer theory

Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence → field → queer theory ⓘ

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