Queer Theory

With their book Queer Criminology (2015), Carrie L. Buist and Emily Lenning lay the foundation for a new criminological subfield that centers queer lives, identities, and experiences in the study of crime and social control. The book challenges the heteronormative and cisnormative assumptions that have long structured mainstream criminology and calls for a fundamental rethinking

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Gender Trouble (1990) by Judith Butler is one of the most influential works in gender studies and queer theory. Butler breaks with traditional assumptions about sex and identity, deconstructs binary gender orders, and shows that gender is not “natural” but socially produced—performative and repeatable. The book has fundamentally shaped feminist theory and the social sciences.

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