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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Queer theory	1
QueerCrit	1

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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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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 ⓘ