GWS 4600 - Queer Theory (3)

When Offered: Spring. Alternate years
An advanced study of ideas and figures central to queer theory. Questions explored include the norms and assumptions that structure our understanding of identity and its complex relationship to sexuality, sex and gender. Figures discussed include Foucault, Sedgwick and Butler. This course also investigates queer theory’s critique of both hetero-and homo-normativity.