CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Mottola, Katherine Barbara |
|---|---|
| Title | Visibly Marked: 'Gaydar' and the Politics of Queer Intelligibility |
| Summary | By tracing the historical and social formation of a dominant queer subjectivity and subsequently problematizing the appropriation of ‘gay styles’ for mainstream audiences, this thesis attempts to explain the contemporary usages of ‘gaydar’ and expose its practices as inextricable from the operations of capitalism, consumption, and commodity culture. The foregrounding of a homo-normative gay subject renders invisible non-dominant queer individuals and groups as well as functions to conceal the inseparability of determinants of identity by paralleling and exploiting the labor of unacknowledged ‘others’. My analysis of issues of visibility deconstructs culturally intelligible significations, notions of identity, and codes of normalcy, while simultaneously revealing the complex politics of queer intelligibility to be intricately linked to processes of commodification. |
| Supervisor | Barat, Erszebet; Timar, Eszter |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/mottola_katherine.pdf |
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