“Queer Critiques emphasized the alterity of the past, respect the continegency of historical phenomena and the perils inherent in reading contemporary identities backward in time!” ( Devun and Tortorrici, 2018). Explore the ways that awarness of sexuality as historically contingent might impact our contemoprary understanding of sexualities”
Literature required:
Devun, Leah and Zeb Tortorrici, ‘Trans,
Time and History‘, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol 5,
no 4 (2018) 518-539
Bauer, Heike. ‘“Not
a translation but a mutilation”: The Limits of Translation and the
Discipline of Sexology“, The
Yale Journal of Criticism, Volume 16, Number 2, (Fall 2003),
pp. 381-405
Traub, Valerie, ‘The
New Unhistoricism in Queer Studies’, PMLA, Vol. 128, No. 1 (January 2013),
pp. 21-39
Foucault, Michel, The
History of Sexuality, trans. by Robert Hurley (New York: Pantheon
Books, 1978), pp. 3-13
Hsieh, L. ‘A
Queer Sex, or, Can Psychoanalysis and Feminism Have Sex Without the Phallus?’ In
Feminist Review 102(1) (2012): 97-115.
Irigaray, Lucy. ‘The Poverty of
Psychoanalysis’. In M. Whitford (ed.) The Irigaray Reader. (Oxford: Blackwell,
1994) pp: 79-104
Freud, S. ‘Three Essays on the Theory of
Sexuality’. In The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works
of Sigmund Freud, Volume VII (1905)
Katz, J. N. ‘Homosexual and Heterosexual:
Questioning the Term’. In A Queer World: the Center for Lesbian and Gay
Studies Reader, (New York University Press: 1997) pp: 177-181
Snorton, C. R. Black on Both Sides: A racial history of trans identity,
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017)
* this is a particularly difficult text,
but give it a go and consider what its main intervention is.