feminist & queer theory 101

Dr. Sarah Rainey

Topography of Feminist Thought

QueerAs a politics…As an identity…

As a theory…PostmodernismPerformativity (Butler)

'There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; ... identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results.' (Gender Trouble, p. 25).

AbjectHeterosexual Matrix

Feminist Critiques of QTMarginalization of lesbians, people of

colorGlossing over of differenceDifficult politicsPlace of the “subject”

Possibilities of QTRethinking normative ways of seeing,

looking for outliers, looking for the abjectCommunity, solidarityQueering nationality, ability, race…

Queer GlobalizationRelationship to CapitalismLocal/globalQueering development discourse

Putting Feminist Thought Into Historical ContextImportant Vocabulary

BacklashPost-feminism/t“power feminism”

1st Wave1848 Declaration of Sentiments1920, 19th Amendment

2nd Wave

3rd Wave

3rd waveA generation

A time period

An ideology/politics

Wave MetaphorBenefits

Drawbacks