Poststructuralism

Call for Papers for a Special Issue on Queer Approaches to Mixed Methods Research

“…Queer theories is a group of scholarship that takes various approaches to the study of sex, gender, sexuality, heteronormativity (the belief that heterosexuality should be the norm), and cisnormativity (the belief that cisgender is the norm, which is the alignment of one's gender with the sex they were assigned at birth) (Butler, 2004;Foucault, 1990;Hall, 2003;Johnson, 2001;McCann & Monaghan, 2020;Sedgwick, 1990;Warner, 1991). Among other philosophical paradigms, queer theorists employ poststructuralist perspectives, which explore how identities and subjectivities are discursively (re)produced through language such as the words used to describe gender or sexuality (Wright & Zhang, 2021), and postmodern perspectives, which investigate the influence of power particularly through specific lenses like sex, gender, and sexuality (Dilley, 1999;Shannon-Baker, 2023). Queer theories are often used to study the experiences of people in the LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other gender or sexual minorities) community including their experiences with intersectional forms of oppression and culturally specific experiences of queerness (e.g., Anzaldúa, 2009;Brim, 2020;Ferguson, 2004;McRuer, 2013;Muñoz, 1999;Pereira, 2019;Samuels, 2003).…”