Binaries – Why the Hell did/ do Queers Accept this?
Readings:
“1,112 and Counting” – Larry Kramer
From “The Second Son” – Robert Ferro
Our ‘Common’ but Canonical Friends: Sedgewick and Butler
Readings:
“Is the Rectum a Grave?” – Leo Bersani
“Introduction” to “What Gender Is, What Gender Does” – Judith Roof
Queers of Yesteryear
Readings:
“The Future is Kid Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification, and the Death Drive” – Lee Edelman
From “The Epistemology of the Closet” – Eve Segdewick
From “Gender Trouble” – Judith Butler
Before the Concept of ‘Queer’
Readings:
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“Queer Theory: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities” – Teresa de Lauretis
From “Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza” – Gloria Anzaldúa
Introduction to The Course
Readings:
“Prologue: We” – Leo Bersani
Psychoanalysis & Gender (Definition/ Terms)
From “The History of Sexuality” – Michel Foucault