User:James073/Queer theory

Queer theory is a term used in various disciplines including literary analysis, philosophy, politics, and other fields cultural study. It functions essentially as a perspective that questions cisgender and heterosexual identities being perceived as the standard and provides a thesis that revisits that field with a "queer" approach.

The term "Queer' itself intentionally remains loosely defined in order to encompass the difficult to categorize spectrum or gender, sexuality and romantic attraction. Similarly, queer theory remains difficult to objectively define as academics from various disciplines have contributed varying understanding of the term. At its core, queer theory relates to queer people, their lived experience and how their lived experience is culturally or politically perceived. Specifically referring to the marginalization of queer people. This thinking is then applied to various fields of thinking.

Queer Theory in Literary Analysis
The term is used to describe a perspective of literary analysis, in many cases arguing that a character or relationship previously assumed to be heterosexual is in fact queer

Queer Theory in Philosophy
In the field of philosophy, Queer Theory falls under an adjacent category to Critical Disability Theory and Feminist theory for their similar approaches in defending communities discriminated against by questioning a societal status quo. Although all three are distinct fields of study, they all work towards a common activist goal of inclusion.

[Disability Studies[Critical Disability Theory]] is a comprehensive term that is used to observe, discuss and question how people marginalized do to a difference in their social context (such as physical or mental disability as well as any other difference that would cause them to be othered in society) are treated in society.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/disability-critical/

Criticisms
The field does not exist without various criticisms. These criticisms are difficult to articulate and have been temporarily removed from this article in order to provide more accurate and comprehensive information. Queer theory has continuously been a particularly difficult subject to write about, especially given its fluid definition and applications. In order to comprehensively understand queer theory, it is important to note that it has also been subject to criticism.

Notes of limited content

The 2014 Book Queer Theory and Communication : From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s) (page 3) notes the limited writing available on queer theory. Although Queer Theory continues to be