
	Where results make sense

Topic: Queer studies

Related Topics

Queer

Queer theory

Homosexuality and transgender

Eve Sedgewick

Sexual hierarchy

LGBT

Gender identity

Literary theory

Prevalence of homosexuality

Homosexuality

Gender role

Causes of sexual orientation

Homophobic hate speech

Luiz Mott

Homophobia

In the News (Mon 9 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Queer studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Queer studies is the study of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity.
		Queer Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field whose goal is to analyze anti-normative sexual identities, performances, discourses and representations in order ultimately to destabilize the notion of normative sexuality and gender.
		Queer studies is not to be confused with Queer theory, an analytical viewpoint within Queer studies that is concentrated within the humanities—particularly the fields of literary studies and philosophy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queer_studies (369 words)

	Queer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Queer is still used to mean 'strange or 'unusual' in many contexts, and in some areas its modern usage must clearly be indicated by the context for it to be understood with its newer meaning.
		For example, 'He's a queer fellow,' would ostensibly be a statement that the man is a bit odd, but the subtext was that the speaker believed him to be gay (however this is not to say that, in transitional or even in contemporary usage, there always exists such a subtext whenever the word is used).
		This is the meaning of 'queer' most closely associated with the academic field known as queer theory, a field that looks to margins of the sexual spectrum to explore and deconstruct societal understandings of fixed sexual identities, and of identities and categories in general.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Queer (1511 words)

	Why Queer Studies at Wesleyan?
		Situated within cultural theory, Queer Studies is an important area of intellectual inquiry, one that produces not just critical reasoning and analysis, but creative thinking and expression and familiarity with processes through which knowledge is createdÑall of which qualify as the "critical capabilities" and ethical reasoning identified as priorities of Wesleyan's curriculum.
		Queer Studies is an interdisciplinary field and is related to, but emphatically not congruent with, an exploration of gender, ethnicity, race and class in society.
		Rather, we ask for Queer Studies for the sole reason that any study and investigation of the world at large is incomplete and insufficient insofar as it ignores sexuality as a major element of the exchange of power, the investment of meaning, and a tool for the organization of societies across the world.
	www.wesleyan.edu /queer/academics/why.html (902 words)

	Gender studies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Gender studies is a theoretical work in the social sciences or humanities that focuses on issues of sex and gender in language and society, and often addresses related issues including racial and ethnic oppression, postcolonial societies, and globalization.
		Work in gender studies is often associated with work in feminist theory, queer studies, and other theoretical aspects of cultural studies.
		While work in gender studies is principally found in humanities departments and publications (in areas such as English literature and other literary studies), it is also found in social-scientific areas such as anthropology, sociology, and psychology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gender_studies (517 words)

	Queer Studies at UNH \| Home
		Queer Studies is a rapidly growing field of study that focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, their history, and culture.
		Queer Studies is a method of inquiry that explores the role of same-sex desire across and among cultures and histories.
		The Queer Studies Emphasis is housed in the Women's Studies office and supported institutionally by the Women's Studies Program, but you do not have to be a Women's Studies major or minor to pursue a QSE.
	www.unh.edu /queerstudies (125 words)

	Women's Studies at Humboldt State University
		Multicultural Queer Studies is a cutting-edge interdisciplinary field, tackling core issues related to sexual orientation and identity, gender identity, new social movements, and the nexus of race, ethnicity, and sexuality.
		Queer Studies focuses our attention on relations of power and privilege -- from the hundreds of privileges that those who identify as heterosexual and gender-conforming receive, to the discrimination against LGBT/Q individuals.
		I believe it is crucial to view queer studies through the multiple lenses of race, class, gender, age, ability, and religion because queer people bridge all these identity categories and more.
	www.humboldt.edu /~womensst/multiculturalQueerStudies.html (658 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Queer Studies Advances Cause
		This discipline involves the study of queer theory—which focuses on deconstructing and questioning society’s definitions of gender and sexuality—and the study of gay and lesbian lifestyles and identity.
		Mari Ruti, a lecturer on women’s studies who is also serving on the committee established by Epps and Love, says the women’s studies committee needs to define the relationship between women’s studies and the new queer studies committee, so that the two committees reinforce—and not detract from—each other.
		Ruti also emphasizes that while women’s studies and queer studies both address some of the same issues, they are separate disciplines and ought to be treated as such.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=161959 (1016 words)

	Women's Studies at Smith College Courses, Main Page
		Queer Studies is an emerging interdisciplinary field whose goal is to analyze antinormative sexual identities, performances, discourses and representations in order ultimately to destabilize the notion of normative sexuality and gender.
		In the queer studies concentration students are encouraged to consider the historical and theoretical foundations of queer studies as well as the potential consequences (epistemological and political) of a queer studies critique.
		This might include attention to the connections between gay and lesbian studies and queer studies, feminist studies and queer studies and the implications of a queer studies critique for other disciplines.
	www.smith.edu /wst/queerstudies.html (678 words)

	Upstream: Queer studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Some assert that the advantage of preferring "queer" is economy: it replaces the clumsy adjectival pair "lesbian and gay," as the plural "queers" supplants the binomial "lesbians and gay men." Yet this usage involves a possibly arbitrary limitation of the inclusiveness some prize in the expression.
		Queer Studies and Queer Activism are, as was noticed at the outset, big news on campus, whatever their other limitations.
		The pioneers of the study of homosexual behavior and culture realized that the humanistic heritage, primarily involving the interpretation of written documents (with classical scholarship at its center), could be fruitfully joined with the new empirical findings of sex research.
	www.mugu.com /cgi-bin/Upstream/Issues/education/queer.html (8340 words)

	On Global Queering
		There is a history to be written of the way in which 'queer studies' emerged in the American academy in the early 1990s, the bastard child of the gay and lesbian movement and postmodern literary theory, which, like other unwed mothers, has been very loathe to acknowledge the father.
		In several cities, gay and lesbian history study groups were established (their impact is seen in works such as Kennedy and Davis's history of Buffalo lesbians and Alan Berube's account of the impact of World War II on the formation of gay/lesbian communities.
		Indeed, there is a basic confusion around 'queer', which is sometimes used to describe a particular way of being homosexual, perhaps expanded to include bisexual desires and unorthodox gender behaviour, and sometimes meant to represent the whole gamut of opposition to the sex/gender order, so that lesbian prostitutes and heterosexual, suburban sado-masochists are equally 'queer'.
	www.lib.latrobe.edu.au /AHR/archive/Issue-July-1996/altman.html (2882 words)

	[No title]
		Indeed, lesbian and gay studies can be charted along much the same trajectory as Women's, African-American, Asian-American or Latino/a Ethnic Studies, all of which were institutionalized (however tenuously in these times of "down-sizing" colleges) at historically specific moments at the conjuncture of their respective (and overlapping) political activism, cultural production, and scholarship.
		Indeed, lesbian/gay studies shares more with these other emergent subdisciplines than a certain path toward discursive legitimation within the academy (though this is not to suggest that the struggles of every field of study have all been identical).
		My emphasis here on popular cultural productions should not indicate that queer studies traffics exclusively in the popular (though the intersection of queer and popular is an intriguing one), as any study of homoclassics or anthrodrag surely indicates.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/pmc/pmc-v4n2-goldstein-queer.txt (2128 words)

	WERRC - Events - Dublin Queer Studies Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Queer theory was developed in the 1980s and 90s from the works of Foucault, Butler, Sedgwick and others, as well as from the experience of a new generation of LGBT, feminist, and civil rights activists.
		She is writing a sole-authored monograph entitled Queer Readings of Film, while teaching classes on histories of sexuality, theoretical approaches to film, and queer studies.
		Using the insights of queer theorists, this paper turns its queer gaze in the direction of the non-human for as Jeffrey Jerome Cohen puts it, ‘the body is not human (or at least, it is not only human)’.
	www.ucd.ie /werrc/events/ev_queer_0304.html (5354 words)

	Denison University Queer Studies Concentration
		To that end, queer studies examines the cultural, social and political implications of sexuality and gender from the perspective of those marginalized by the dominant sexual ethos.
		Students may choose a concentration in queer studies in addition to any major and may weight their choices toward the social sciences, the humanities, the arts or the life sciences.
		The queer studies committee is composed of professors from several departments of the college, who act as administrators and advisors to the students in the concentration.
	www.denison.edu /departments/qs/access.html (582 words)

	Amazon.com: The Material Queer: A Lesbigay Cultural Studies Reader (Queer Critique): Books: Donald Morton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Here the unstable and shifting ground of queer sexual identity is posited as a function of late capitalism, a situtation of quickly flowing and networking capital, which seeks profit outside of "traditional" gender and sexual boundaries.
		Queer theory, like bisexuals, can pose a "crisis of meaning" for many who wish to carve out a safe and protective space for lesbigays.
		As LesBiGay studies have often relied on sexual orientation/sexual identity as a fundamental category, queer theory attempts to destablize this "bedrock," revealing the power structures and discursive limits within.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0813319277?v=glance (744 words)

	Queer Research at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base
		The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) is the first and only university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and political issues of vital concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered individuals.
		Queer Arts Resource is a not-for-profit educational forum for the display and discussion of queer art and culture.
		Until the recent advent of Queer Studies, the History of Art has omitted most material of direct relevance to lesbians and gays.
	www.erraticimpact.com /~lgbt/html/queer_research.htm (409 words)

	Introduction to Queer Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For cultural conservatives, these words signify at best the decline of humanistic study into the trivial and the obscene, and at worst the recruitment of innocent youth into a life of depravity, despair, and disease.
		Often queer activists outside academia disparage "queer studies," along with its kissing cousin, "queer theory," as ivory tower mumbo-jumbo, useless to people’s everyday struggles.
		The purpose of queer studies is not simply to affirm non-normative sexual orientation, but to interrogate the meaning of human eroticism.
	www.mrs.umn.edu /~merrill/207B.html (1027 words)

	[KS] Korean Queer Studies Forum: A Call to Convene
		Outside of the media, academic debate about queer issues at Korea‘s universities still remains something of a taboo, carried on largely by a few underground intellectuals who are forced to talk about non-normative gender and sexuality through already marginalized programs such as women’s studies.
		Although queer groups now exist on Korean university campuses, pressures to conform to prescriptive notions of sexuality require that they carry out many of their activities in anonymity.
		The following call for the creation of a Korean Queer Studies Forum is informed by this situation ?that is, the perceived absence of a critical intellectual discussion on issues of importance to the queer communities of South Korea, in spite of their relevance to the contemporary situation both in and outside of the peninsula.
	koreaweb.ws /pipermail/koreanstudies_koreaweb.ws/2003-December/004005.html (765 words)

	Queer Studies at UNH \| About the QSE
		The QSE consists of a cluster of five courses with an interdisciplinary focus on Queer Studies.
		The spirit of inquiry and engagement is at the heart of Queer Studies.
		Queer Studies is not currently offered as a major or minor at UNH.
	www.unh.edu /queerstudies/about.html (343 words)

	Queer Studies
		The neighbor insists that the success of their ploy relies on François changing precisely nothing about his appearance: that is, he is not to act “gay.” Viewers are initially and positively surprised, judging that one needn’t be effeminate to be gay.
		Those in the audience who had first perceived François as a refreshing take on such misgivings of the gay “mystique” in its portrayal of human sexuality as a multifarious phenomenon are left disappointed as the other characters work to perpetuate “queer” stereotypes.
		Lastly, although the film is riotously funny at times, a strange sadness surrounds the lonely and only openly gay person, the neighbor for whom François and his struggle represent a vengeance or restitution of a generation in the coming.
	www.uiowa.edu /~mmla/abstracts2004/queerstudies.htm (665 words)

	Lesbian and Gay Studies Project - University of Chicago
		The LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES PROJECT (LGSP), an integral part of the University's Center for Gender Studies, coordinates graduate and undergraduate courses, provides research grants and dissertation-year fellowships to graduate students, co-sponsors the bi-weekly Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop, and organizes research projects and conferences.
		It provides an interdisciplinary locus for Chicago faculty and graduate students who study the historical, cultural, and textual construction of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and other queer identities, cultures, and politics; analyze those formations or the dominant culture and social theory from the perspective of queer theory; or engage in other critical studies of sexuality.
		Training the next generation of lesbian, gay, and queer studies scholars is central to the mission of the University of Chicago's Lesbian and Gay Studies Project.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /orgs/cgs/lgsp.html (373 words)

	www.theory.org.uk Resources: Queer Theory
		Queer theory is a set of ideas based around the idea that identities are not fixed and do not determine who we are.
		It is a mistake to think that queer theory is another name for lesbian and gay studies.
		Queer theory has something to say to lesbian and gay studies -- and also to a bunch of other areas of sociology and cultural theory.
	www.theory.org.uk /ctr-que1.htm (288 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)