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date: 28 March 2025

Queer Theory 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States
Author(s):
Jennifer B. DoyleJennifer B. Doyle

is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sexuality, making significant contributions to literary criticism, film and video criticism, philosophy, cultural studies, psychoanalysis, and legal scholarship. Queer theory builds on feminism and gay and lesbian scholarship. But as its own category assembling antihomophobic writing about sexuality, it is a recent phenomenon, having taken shape at the end of the 1980s. The format in which queer theory has been defined includes academic conferences and journals, books, and anthologies of writing on sexuality and cultural ... ...

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