Trained in Continental philosophy and published on Hegel, Butler is better known for her engagement with feminist theory and as the ' mother ' ( along with English literature scholar Eve Sedgwick ) of Queer Theory.

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Queer theory and LGBT studies takes the concept one step further, viewing psychoanalytical and modernist views of eroticism as both archaic and heterosexist, written primarily by and for a " handful of elite, heterosexual, bourgeois men " who " mistook their own repressed sexual proclivities " as the norm.

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Due to a tendency in 1980s-1990s academic criticism to locate Bonheur as a proto-Feminist and as a pivotal figure for Queer theory, she is perhaps most famous today because she was known for wearing men's clothing and living together with Anna Klumpke.

Queer theory is a field of post-structuralist critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and Women's studies.

Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorisation of ' queerness ' itself.

Queer studies is the critical theory based study of issues relating to sexual orientation and gender identity usually focusing on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex ( LGBTI ) people and cultures.

Queer studies is not the same as queer theory, an analytical viewpoint within queer studies ( centered on literary studies and philosophy ) that challenges the putatively " socially constructed " categories of sexual identity.

Queer theory soon developed, challenging the " socially constructed " categories of sexual identity.

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* Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Queer theory

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* Queer theory: A growing body of research findings that challenges the heterosexual bias in Western society.

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Usually the most basic of these relationships studied is that between the mother and child, and second most basic is between sexual partners — the focus of feminism and Queer theory respectively, where relationships are central.

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The film has been the subject of critical attention in the context of both film theory and queer theory and is considered part of the informal New Queer Cinema movement.

In examining the film from a queer theory perspective, author Michele Aaron cites Zero Patience as definitional of one of the New Queer Cinema's central attitudes, the " def of cinematic convention in terms of form, content and genre.

Queer theory and politics were emerging topics in academic circles, with proponents arguing that gender and sexual categories such as homosexual and heterosexual were historical social constructs, subject to change with cultural attitudes.

* Mentsh: On Being Jewish and Queer, edited by Angela Brown

The Columbia Queer Alliance is the central Columbia student organization that represents the lesbian, gay, transgender, and questioning student population.

Queer Nation chapters were founded in dozens of other cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Charlottesville, Virginia, Chicago, Columbus, Ohio, Columbia, S. C., Houston, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal ( known as Queer Nation Rose ), Philadelphia ( known as Queer Action ), Nashville, San Francisco, Seattle and Toronto.

The Queer Nation chapters in Atlanta, Georgia ; Columbia, South Carolina ; Berea and Lexington, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee were active in protesting homophobic policies of the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain.

* Nancy Ordover, American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism ( Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis Press, 2003 ).

Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada, University of Toronto Press.

* Sara Ahmed, " Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects Others " ( Durham: Duke University Press 2006 )

* Pat Califia: Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex ( Essays ), Cleis Press, 2001, ISBN 1-57344-132-5

Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965, University of California Press, 2003.

* Peraino, Judith Ann, Listening to the Sirens: Musical Technologies of Queer Identity from Homer to Hedwig, University of California Press, 2006.

* Beacon Press website for A Queer and Pleasant Danger

* Speaking Sex to Power: The Politics of Queer Sex, Cleis Press, November 2001, ISBN 1-57344-132-5

French Queer Cinema, Edinburgh University Press ( 2008 ) ISBN 0-7486-3418-5

In early 2011, a group of self-identified LGBT Harding students and alumni calling themselves the Harding University Queer Press published a zine entitled The State of the Gay at Harding University, slipping copies of the independent publication under doors in each Harding dormitory.

( 2004 ) Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique University of Minnesota Press.

* Queer Fear II, Michael Rowe, editor, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2002, ISBN 1-55152-122-9 ( horror fiction collection featuring Treleaven's infamous short story ' Bugcrush ')

The Queer German Cinema. Stanford University Press 2000.

French Queer Cinema, Edinburgh University Press ( 2008 )

* Our Tribe: Queer Folks, God, Jesus, and the Bible ( Alamo Press )

His work appears in Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology edited by Amy Sonnie, Alyson Press, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, as well as Emanual Xavier's Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry, and the magazine Anything That Moves.