НОРМАТИВНИЯТ ПРОБЛЕМ ЗА ХОМОСЕКСУАЛНИЯ СУБЕКТ: GAY & LESBIAN STUDIES И QUEER THEORY
THE NORMATIVE PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL SUBJECT: GAY & LESBIAN STUDIES AND QUEER THEORY

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on, to begin with, the normative problem of the construction and studying of homosexuality and its subjects. Secondly, through a brief overview of homosexualityis construction and pathologizing, to be shown how it was possible to be defined the state of sexualityis normal subject. Thirdly, how the sexualityis normal subject and its other have been both constructed. From then on I am trying to show how homosexualityis defining situates its subjects in a position of oppression, study and medicalization. As a consequence of 20th century sexual liberation and gay liberationism and the influence of Foucaultis theory of sexuality - by adopting “the thesis of repression” as a mere theory of power - the re-writing of sexual identities seems to be redundant, since repression has been substantialized as much as the very subject of sexuality. Hence all the derivative problems over the establishment of new concepts and categories - all they appear to be as (self) repressing as the outdated psychiatry theories. In brief, the study and the re-definition of homosexuality begin to postpone themselves through intra-academic quarrels over method, concept, object, history. The controversies between gay and lesbian studies and queer theory are considered, and the introduction of a new identity concept - queer, through which it is not only homosexualityis subject that is deconstructed, demedicalized, and de-categorized, but also the ones of the sex-gender dichotomy, as well as all the sexual identities - as a refusal from sexualitiesi defining, and as possible sexualities.

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