The love bug and the melancholic drag queen or a reflection on the cultural/political "grounds" of subjects as sexual.
The notion of the subject and its formation has long been at the centre of discussion in critical theory. Identity discourse constructed a passive subject made up of qualities such us gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and age. Poststructuralist thought on the other hand invested its critical mind i...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Cultural Research Vol. 8; no. 4; pp. 447 - 466 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct2004
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