Queer Theory

Sociology (Humanities), 1991

Foucault’s sex dungeon legacy: a radically-politicised area of study of those who do not fit into traditional social definitions informed by science.

Science likes to study abnormalities; sociology likes to politicise them. This “area of study” was coined by Foucault-loving Teresa de Lauretis, a professor of the “History of Consciousness” and expert-in-everything (err “feminist film theory”) in a 1991 essay for “Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies”, entitled “Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities”. Her Wikipedia page is truly spectacular in its stupidity quotient. Well documented in “A Genealogy of Queer Theory” (2000) by William Turner.

• https://oed.com/view/Entry/156236#eid27445165
• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=queer+theory
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=queer+theory
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teresa_de_Lauretis
• https://www.amazon.co.uk/Queer-Theory-Lesbian-Sexualities-Differences/dp/0253300002
• https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/A_Genealogy_of_Queer_Theory.html?id=zXy_HSt1IJIC&redir_esc=y