The unruly queer figure's phallic seductions and the re/production of sexual (in)difference

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ID4367332
AuthorsCorie Hammers (Macalester College, Saint Paul, USA), Corie J Hammers (Macalester College, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume16
Issue2
Pages153-170
Publication date2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700115585722
OpenAlexW2171325673
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

This article interrogates a psychoanalytically inflected strain of anti-social queer theory that in privileging refusal and negation, views as paradigmatic of 'queerness' the destructive, annihilative aspects in (queer) sex. In this view, sexuality is a product of the unconscious, thus irreducible to gender, such that gender is irrelevant to (and indeed hinders) understandings of desire. Informed by feminism, which views gender as crucial to any theory on sexuality, I expose that which 'sexual negation' masks through this very disavowal - that of gender and the body itself. I argue that subtending the figural representation of queer/ness is a deep-seated, albeit disguised, masculinism that, through negation, works to re-centre and re-virilise (gay) men's sexual economies. I take up Butler's lesbian phallus to de-idealise and thus challenge this privileging of the penis operating within this strain of queer - as only phallic sexual economies can, it seems, deliver the very annihilation we (all) seek

Eroticism · Feminism · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Negation · Phallic stage · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Transgender · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology

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