Publisher's Synopsis
In the 1990s, the key term used for the most recent discourses on sexuality is "queer". Queer theory seeks to disempower its heterosexual opponents by appropriating one of their most insulting terms, just as abstract painters earlier this century reacted to ridicule of their work by calling themselves "cubists". This theory challenges the belief that a stable relationship exists between chromosomal sex, social gender and sexual desire.
