Om queer femininitet och iscensättandet av kön

Abstract

The artide examines the subversive and queer potentials of femininity, through the use of feminist theory and queer theory. The point of departure is an article by Ulrika Dahl, which was published in the official magazine of the National Swedish Federation for Lesbian and Gay Rights (RFSL). Dahl's article opens for the possibility to interpret femininity as something other than an unambiguously patriarchal and heterosexual position. Using the theories of Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler and others, it is shown how gender can, not only be performed incorrectly, but that it is also possible to perform gender "too much". This exaggerated performance of gender fits well with Beauvoir's analysis of femininity without an illusion of transcendence, which hasn't been explicitly analyzed before. This queer femininity can, along with other subversive positions, be used to challenge patriarchal and heteronormative structures.