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Feminism's Queer Theory

Department of Film, Television and Media Studies, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, Aotearoa New Zealand, a.jagose{at}auckland.ac.nz

This article argues that, in contradistinction to its widely promoted ethical openness to its future, queer theory has been less scrupulous about its messy, flexible and multiple relations to its pasts, the critical and activist traditions from which it emerged and that continue to develop alongside in mutually informing ways. In particular, it assesses queer theory's tangled, productive and ongoing relations with feminist theory. Returning to the controversial analytic separation of gender and sexuality that has been prominently theorized as key to distinguishing between feminist and queer theoretical projects, the article traces the influence of Gayle Rubin's `Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality' through feminist and queer scholarship in order to demonstrate that, however different their projects, feminist theory and queer theory together have a stake in both desiring and articulating the complexities of the traffic between gender and sexuality.

Key Words: anti-identitarian • Judith Butler • essentialism • lesbian/gay studies • Gayle Rubin • women's studies

Feminism & Psychology, Vol. 19, No. 2, 157-174 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0959353509102152


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