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GATE 2025 XH2 (English) – Question 55

Critical Theories and Intellectual Traditions · Theoretical Paradigms: Structuralism, Marxism, feminism, existentialism, poststructuralism, modernism, postmodernism, new historicism, postcolonialism, posthumanism · 2 marks · Multiple select

Which of the following statement(s) is/are true of Queer Theory?

  1. Queer theorists do not view sexuality as disengaged from gender and from the binary opposition of male and female.
  2. Queer theorists rely on postmodern concepts as gender ambivalence, ambiguity, and multiplicity of identities.
  3. Queer theorists have sought to create a public that includes self-identified gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgenders.
  4. Queer theorists use the word ‘queer’ for its shock value as well as for its sense of playfulness and its wrenching sense of recontextualization.

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Correct answer: (A) Queer theorists do not view sexuality as disengaged from gender and from the binary opposition of male and female.; (B) Queer theorists rely on postmodern concepts as gender ambivalence, ambiguity, and multiplicity of identities.; (C) Queer theorists have sought to create a public that includes self-identified gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgenders.; (D) Queer theorists use the word ‘queer’ for its shock value as well as for its sense of playfulness and its wrenching sense of recontextualization.

Explanation

All four statements describe queer theory as it is usually summarised: it links sexuality to gender, uses postmodern ideas of ambiguity, addresses a broad public, and reclaims the word queer.