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Queer Theory

Queer Theory is a critical theoretical framework that interrogates the normative categories and binary constructions of gender and sexuality by analyzing how identity is socially constituted and maintained.

8.4K

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479.2K

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8.9K

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1.9K

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Bodies that Matter: on the Discursive Limits of 'Sex'

Merl Storr · Women’s Philosophy Review · 1994 · 7.5K citations

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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex".

Bryan S. Turner, Judith Butler · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1995 · 5.6K citations

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Cruising utopia: the then and there of queer futurity

Choice Reviews Online · 2010 · 5.4K citations

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Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity

1999 · 5.2K citations

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In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

Christopher C. Nagle · The Journal of Popular Culture · 2006 · 3.2K citations

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Authors

8.9K

  1. JB
    Judith Butler

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    16 publications · 8K citations

    16

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  2. MV
    Mollie V. Blackburn

    The Ohio State University, United States

    14 publications · 629 citations

    14

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  3. AG
    Andrew Gorman‐Murray

    Western Sydney University, Australia

    14 publications · 813 citations

    14

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  4. ML
    Mary Lou Rasmussen

    Monash University, Australia

    14 publications · 653 citations

    13

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  5. KB
    Kath Browne

    University of Brighton, United Kingdom

    15 publications · 697 citations

    13

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Institutions

1.9K

  1. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    39 h-index

    142 publications

    7.8K citations

  2. Gender Studies

    Prague, Czechia

    29 h-index

    47 publications

    4.1K citations

  3. New York University

    New York, United States

    29 h-index

    61 publications

    3.5K citations

  4. York University

    Toronto, Canada

    29 h-index

    68 publications

    3.4K citations

  5. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    28 h-index

    50 publications

    3K citations

  6. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    27 h-index

    57 publications

    3.4K citations

  7. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    27 h-index

    72 publications

    4.8K citations

  8. Monash University

    Melbourne, Australia

    26 h-index

    56 publications

    2.5K citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 444 publications · 59.1K citations

    115

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  2. GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

    207 publications · 17.3K citations

    60

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  3. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews

    117 publications · 20.8K citations

    58

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  4. Sexualities

    211 publications · 9.8K citations

    53

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  5. Journal of Homosexuality

    JH · 182 publications · 7.2K citations

    46

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See also

Queer Theory

Core Concepts

Historical Origins

Analytical Methods

Critiques