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Queer theory
Queer Theory aims to change society and analyze it. It is influenced by Judith Butler's Gender Trouble, which argues that gender and sex should not be linked categories so that all sexual identities can be accepted. Queer Theory points to examples in popular culture like gender-bending performers and advertisements that suggest gender and sexuality are more fluid concepts than fixed identities. It also notes that gay and lesbian characters in media are now treated less as tokenism and more as normal representations.
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Queer theory
- 4. Like feminism, QueerTheory is a political and cultural project: one that wants to change the world as well as analyse it. Queer Theory is heavily influenced by Judith Butler’s book Gender Trouble(1990), the title of which gives some indication of the theory’s key objective: to break the link between the categories of ‘sex’ and ‘gender’ so that all forms of sexual identity can be accepted and celebrated.
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- 16. You could arguethat there is plenty of evidence of ‘gender trouble’ everywhere in the cultural landscape: gender-bending pop performers and youth subcultures, advertisements that toy with ideas of transgressive sexuality such as sado- masochism, celebrities who acknowledge their bisexuality and so on. The presence of a gay or lesbian character in television or film drama is no longer, necessarily, a plot device or an exercise in self-evident tokenism.