"Disciplining "Sextext

Queers, Fears, and Communication Studies

Bibliographic Data

ID3638872
AuthorsA Susan Owens, A Susan Owen (University of Puget Sound, corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume45
Issue2-4
Pages297-317
Publication date2003-09-23
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Homosexuality (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-8369 • E-ISSN: 1540-3602
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1300/j082v45n02_14
PMID14651185
OpenAlexW2083381889
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited28

This essay is a critical interrogation of disciplinary responses to Tom Nakayama and Fred Corey's 1997 Text and Performance Quarterly essay, "Sextext." Disciplinary responses to the essay suggest strong resistance to queer theory as a "legitimate" intellectual and critical framework. By reading the responses to "Sextext" through the lens of queer theory, and by offering a political reading of conventional studies of sexual representation, this essay suggests how disciplinary boundaries in Communication Studies are policed to protect the production of "legitimate" scholarship. By revealing these practices, this essay provides further support for the central value of queer theory to the discipline of Communication Studies

Aesthetics · Art · Critical theory · Discipline · Epistemology · Interrogation · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Reading (process · Representation (politics · Resistance (ecology · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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