Theories+of+Literary+Criticism

[|Feminist Critique]

[|Queer Theory]- a very basic overview

From: []: Gay/lesbian studies, as a political form of academics, also challenges the notion of normative sexualities. As Rubin's article suggests, once you set up a category labeled "normal," you automatically set up its opposite, a category labeled "deviant," and the specific acts or identities which fill those categories then get linked to other forms of social practices and methods of social control. When you do something your culture labels deviant, you are liable to be punished for it: by being arrested, by being shamed, made to feel dirty, by losing your job, your license, your loved ones, your self-respect, your health insurance. Gay/lesbian studies, like feminist studies, works to understand how these categories of normal and deviant are constructed, how they operate, how they are enforced, in order to intervene into changing or ending them.

Critical Race Theory and African American Literary Criticism: [|Critical Race Theory - an Introduction] [|"The Unbearable Whiteness of Being"] "The Unbearable Whitenss of Being."