Back Seat Girls: Where Do Dykes Sit with Queer theory?

• Authors: Anne Harris

Title variants

PL

Dziewczyny z tylnego siedzenia. Lesbijki wobec teorii queer

• Languages of publication: EN PL

Abstracts

EN

Drawing on the narrative frames of the "road trip" and "lesbian drama," genres which, it could be argued, normatively construct Otherness with all that is Queer, in respect to not fitting in or belonging, this article attempts to draw on queer theory to out gay male and lesbian relationships. Relationships between gay men and lesbians, constructed in and around identity practices, have been troubled by the emergence of queer folk, productively focusing attention on the differences between and within gay male and lesbian identities and communities. Using the metaphor of "road trip" to Queer gay male and lesbian relationships, I reconsider the question of lesbian presences in queer theory and in doing so seek to productively trouble the normalising practices of identity with gay male and lesbian relationships.

PL

Posługując się narracyjnymi ramami "drogi" oraz "dramatu lesbijskiego" (gatunków, które - jak można dowodzić - normatywnie konstruują Inność wraz ze wszystkim, co queer, w odniesieniu do braku "wpasowania się" lub przynależności), artykuł ten czerpie z zasobów teorii queer, po to by "wyoutować" relacje między gejami i lesbijkami. Relacje te, skonstruowane wokół praktyk tożsamościowych i poprzez nie, zostały poddane rewizji wskutek pojawienia się odmieńców (osób queer), co doprowadziło do produktywnego skupienia uwagi na różnicach pomiędzy gejowskimi i lesbijskimi tożsamościami i społecznościami, a także wewnątrz nich. Korzystając z metafory "podróży samochodem", aby squeerować relacje między gejami i lesbijkami, powracam do kwestii lesbijskich obecności w teorii queer, przez co staram się produktywnie sproblematyzować normalizujące praktyki tożsamościowe w odniesieniu do tych relacji.

• Publisher: InterAlia
• Journal: InterAlia: Pismo poświęcone studiom queer
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 2

Dates

published

2010

Contributors

author

Anne Harris

• School of Education at Victoria University, Australia

translator

Rafał Majka

• Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej, Warszawa

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