Our opening definitions

Hi all!

Hope you're enjoying your Butler and Grosz readings. Both are very dense, and they make reference to many previous discourses and theorists, some of whom we'll read and some of whom we won't. It's okay if you feel like you're "missing" parts. Come to class tomorrow with questions--we'll sort through things together.

In the meantime, I thought you all might be interested in seeing what our provisional definitions are for some of our semester's key terms. Read on below.

Best,

Dr. Renzi

Body is:

image, person, body parts, type, body of work, physical images, mind and soul, physical fitness, anatomy, athleticism, whole, contingency, unit, human, limbs, torso, skin, physical self/ being

Queer is: 

not of the norm; something different from an established, if not fully accepted, normal state often used in relation to gender, identity, or sexuality; someone whose sexual proclivities or mannerisms lay outside social “norms”; different from the norm; something unusual, out of the ordinary, or—as it relates to sexuality—homosexuality; different from an alleged, contextual normality; different, odd, something unfamiliar to me