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Queer Theory (Key Texts)

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, 1990. Coined term “Gender Performativity”

Connell, Robert. Gender and Power: Society, the Person, and Sexual Politics. Standford: Standford University Press, 1987. Conceptualized “Hegemonic Masculinity”

Foucault, Michel. History of Sexuality: Vol 1. New York: Random House, 1978. Intellectual start of Queer Theory

Rubin, Gayle. “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality.” Pleasure and Danger. Ed Carol Vance. New York: Routledge, 1984. Radical look at sexuality and the social hierarchy of sexual practicies

West, Candace and Don H. Zimmerman. “Doing Gender.” Gender & Society. 1(2), 125-151: 1987. People actively “do” their gender every day

Masculinity

Demetriou, Demetrakis, Z. "Connell’s Concept fo Hegemonic Masculinity: A Critique.” Theory and Society. 30(3) (June 2001): pg 337-361. Hegemonic masculinity

Cohen, Cathy J. "Contested Membership: Gay Black Identities and the Politics of AIDS.” Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader. Ed. Robert J. Corber and Stephen Valocchi. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Intersectionality of black male and homosexual male identities

Halberstam, Judith. Female Masculinity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. Social construction of masculinity; drag kings

Katz, Jackson. "Advertising and the Construction of Violent White Masculinity: From Eminem to Clinique for Men." Gender, race and Class in the Media: A Text-Reader 2nd ed. Ed. Gail Dines and Jean M Humez. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publication, 2003. Socialization of boys; hegemonic masculinity

Kimmel, Michael S. “Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity.” Theorizing Masculinities. Ed. Harry Brod and Michael Kaufman. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994. Socialization of boys

Tongues Untied. Dir. Marlon Riggs. MTR Production, 1989. Intersectionality of black male and homosexual male identities

Tough Guise: Violence, Media & Crisis of Masculinity. Feat. Jackson Katz. Dir. Sut Jhally. Media Education Foundation, 1999. Socialization of boys; hegemonic masculity

Femininity

Bettie, Julie. Women without Class: Girls, Race, and Identity. Berkeley, University of California Press: 2002. Intersectionality of race, class, and gender in Mexican-American girls

Koedt, Anne. “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm.”. 1970. Click here for link Traditional construction of female sexality in relation to male sexuality

Transgender

The Brandon Teena Story. Dir. Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir. Docurama, 1998. Transgender hate crime

Dozier, Raine. "Beards, Breasts, and Bodies: Doing Sex in a Gendered World.” Gender and Society. 2005: 19(3), 297-316. Male to Female Transsexuals (MTFs)

Judith Halberstam. "The Brandon Teena Archive.” Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader. Ed. Robert J. Corber and Stephen Valocchi. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003 Transgender hate crime; intersection of race and sexuality

Paris is Burning. Dir. Jennie Livingston. Miramax, 2005. NYC 1980s drag queen culture; queer families

Roen, K. 'Either/or' and 'both/neither': discursive tensions in transgender politics. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2001: 27(2), 501-522. Transgender debate about passing as male or female or embracing a transgender identity

Intersex

Chase, Cheryl. "Hermaphrodites with Attidue: Mapping the Emergence of Intersex Political Activism.” Queer Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader. Ed. Robert J. Corber and Stephen Valocchi. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003. Introduction to intersex activism

Dreger, A. D. “'Ambiguous sex': or ambivalent medicine? Ethical issues in the treatment of intersexuality." The Hastings Center Report, 28(3): 1998. Critique of current medical treatement of intersex infants

Intersex Society of North America (ISNA). Click here for link Largest Intersex advocacy group in world; many links with good reference and resourse information.

Kessler, Suzanne J. Lessons from the Intersexed. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press: 1998. Foundational book about intersex issues

Preves, S. E. “Sexing the intersexed: an analysis of sociocultural responses to intersexuality.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 27(2): 2001. Analysis of medical treatment of intersex

Sytsma, Sharon E. (Ed.). Ethics and Intersex: International Library of Ethics, Law and the New Medicine. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006. Reader on Intersex issues; intersex surgeries as human rights violations