Showing posts with label LGBTI studies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LGBTI studies. Show all posts

Thursday, January 13, 2011

LGBT Studies, Queer Theory and Sexualities


Work by Robert Mapplethorpe

Between the time of Sappho and the birth of Natalie Clifford Barney lies a 'lesbian silence' of twenty-four centuries.
                                       - Bertha Harris, Our
                                         Right to Love (1978)

Gender studies differs from Feminism in as far as Feminism is concerned with the social construction of women's identity whereas gender studies is concerned with the social construction of all gender identities and experiences - whether man, woman, transgendered, gender-blended, queer, ambiguous or something entirely else.