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The Origin of Queer Theory: Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex"

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The Politics of Sex

Gayle Reuben: Contemporary conflicts over sexual values and erotic conduct have much in common with the religious disputes of earlier centuries. She says at times such as these, when we live with the possibility of unthinkable destruction, that people are likely to become dangerously crazy about sexuality. And then it goes straight into the Foucauldian postmodern. So now she's going to what will become queer theory through a lens of social constructivism.

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