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In an attempt to rethink
categories and strategies of
identity, Queer theory aims to
shift the focus away from
minority groups to the cultural
level by implementing an
analysis of the hetero/
homosexual
opposition.
Such categories
as the family, the
state, the individual
and the "natural homosexual"
are products of this
dualistic construction.
Queer theory
analyzes these codes in
texts and social practices
to expose and replace
them with a new sexual
and social condition
that goes beyond
the hetero/homo
duality and
celebrates social
difference.
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