Queer Theory

In this writing, Cohen introduces queer theory as a transformative politics, and criticizes queer theories and activists for their exclusiveness to heterosexuality. She organizes texts and context chronologically to develop her opinions, and at the end, synthesizes these analyses to suggest a political direction for her primary concern. According to her explanation, the term “queer” arose against the homosexual communities’ attempts to enter the dominant social norms. Queer theorists accused it of reinforcing the hegemonic sexual categories;
“queerness” not only denied socially constructed sexuality, but also tried to destabilize the institutionally operating power. As focusing on the existing system, however, queer movement ended up “hetero/