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Queer Political Theory

Description:
This course will examine two questions: (1) how, in what way, or to what degree is sex/uality political? And (2) What does the answer to this question entail for something called queer political? We will begin by reading and evaluating a handful of classic feminist critiques of sexuality, and then consider the response to this critique by pro-sex or sex radical feminists. From here we will consider the emergence of specifically queer voices articulation historical, sociological, medical, and biological critiques of the presumed naturalness or universality of categories like sexual orientation, sexual dimorphism, and gender identity and expression. Finally, we will address the second question of the course, the question of politics. Is being queer political? What is being challenged in asserting queerness, and what kind of political values, commitments, and goals follow from that understanding of gender and sex/uality?

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