{"id":81,"date":"2018-10-25T19:14:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/eng333-draft\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2018-12-09T04:03:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:03:44","slug":"theory-7","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/theory-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adrienne Rich, gay theorist and American poet, who is known for her\u00a0political radicalism and explorations in feminism and lesbianism.\u00a0 In 1980 she wrote an essay titled \u201cCompulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience&#8221;\u00a0 in which she analyzed a number of books and their lack of inclusion or acknowledgment of lesbianism.\u00a0 She argues that this lack of acknowledgement forces women into \u201ccompulsory heterosexuality\u201d through epistemic violence by men. In addition to although there are not many other queer\/gay theorists, in 1955 a group of women led by\u00a0<span id=\"ref1261038\"><\/span><a class=\"md-crosslink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Del-Martin\">Del Martin<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<span id=\"ref1261037\"><\/span><a class=\"md-crosslink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/Phyllis-Lyon\">Phyllis Lyon<\/a>\u00a0assembled the\u00a0<span id=\"ref1207155\"><\/span><a class=\"md-crosslink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Daughters-of-Bilitis\">Daughters of Bilitis<\/a>\u00a0(DOB), which can be referred to as the first national organization for lesbians. Members of DOB organized for social and political purposes. Their goal was to\u00a0 end the sense of isolation many lesbians felt within the community, region and on a national scale. They stood for their legal right to\u00a0 increase their social acceptance.<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lesbian criticism address issues related to both sexism and heteroism\u2026 lesbian critics must deal with the psychological,social,economic, and political oppression fostered not by patriarchal male privilege, but by heterosexual privilege as well. This is a double whammy here.\u00a0The queer theory incorporates the perspective of gay and lesbian theory. Lesbian criticism\u00a0 addresses what individuals face being lesbian in a heterisexual priveleged world today. Queer theory defines individual sexuality as fluid and dynamic rather than solid and at a standstill such a hetersexualism.\u00a0 Heterosexualism is perceived to be straight rather than &#8216;fluid&#8217; or a collective of possible sexualities. When utilizing the queer perspective, but more specifically, the lesbian perspective to analyze a piece of literature. one can see how some character&#8217;s oppress their true sexuality opposed to the normal heterosexual view that most text try to portray. By taking a look at this perspective through a post-colonial perspective one can gain further knowledge of not only the world itself but the characters inside each text. This will help to acknowledge the oppression and the privileging which takes place in everyday society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrienne Rich, gay theorist and American poet, who is known for her\u00a0political radicalism and explorations in feminism and lesbianism.\u00a0 In 1980 she wrote an essay titled \u201cCompulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Experience&#8221;\u00a0 in which she analyzed a number of books and their lack of inclusion or acknowledgment of lesbianism.\u00a0 She argues that this lack of acknowledgement&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/theory-7\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12078,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/edmondsengl333\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}