Teresa de Lauretis

“Queer theory's project is the deconstruction of the categories of sexual identity and the very notion of 'sexual identity' itself.”

“The space-off is a space of contradiction, a blind spot in the scopic regime of cinematic representation.”

“Desire is the engine of narrative.”

“The female subject is a site of differences; differences that are not only sexual or only racial, economic, or (sub)cultural, but all of these together and in conflict with one another.”

“What I have called the 'technology of gender' both constructs and fixes the representation of gender.”

“The stakes, then, are the redefinition of the social, of cultural, and of the historical from the perspective of a female consciousness, a female subject.”

“Narrative and oedipal, with a vengeance, I would say, are the structure of our subjectivity.”

“Representation is a process by which meaning is produced and exchanged between members of a culture.”

“Experience is the process by which, for all social beings, subjectivity is constructed.”

“The construction of gender is both the product and the process of its representation.”

“Gender, as a representation of a relation, is a product of social technologies.”