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Not Yet Queer Enough

The Lessons of Queer Theory for the Sociology of Gender and Sexuality

Stephen Valocchi

Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

This article gauges the progress that sociologists of gender and sexuality have made in employing the insights of queer theory by examining four recent monographs that have utilized aspects of queer theory in their empirical work: Rupp and Taylor (2003), Seidman (2002), Bettie (2003), and Schippers (2000). The article uses the insights of queer theory to push the monographs in an even "queerer" theoretical direction. This direction involves taking more seriously the nonnormative alignments of sex, gender, sexuality, resisting the tendency to essentialize identity or conflate it with the broad range of gender and sexual expression and treating the construction of intersectional subjectivities as both performed and performative in nature. The analysis of these texts also insists that a queer sociological theory situate its emphasis on discursive power more firmly in economic, political, and other institutional processes. Ethnographic methods are proposed as the most useful way of combining queer theory with sociological analysis.

Key Words: queer theory • performativity • power • ethnography

Gender & Society, Vol. 19, No. 6, 750-770 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0891243205280294
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