Queer Theory emerged amongst gender studies in the early 1990s. Challenging the heteronormative view, queer theory disrupts normative thinking by placing emphasis on remaining gender and sex neutral within the field. This approach focuses on giving minority groups within society a voice, in turn granting power back to the marginalized. According to queer theory, identities are not fixed but rather constantly changing and individual specific. The common belief that queer theory is an approach desperate to find evidence of homosexuality in the past is wrong. In fact, queer theory has little to do with homosexuality and more to do with critiquing normative practice. It deconstructs previous understanding of the self to encompass anything that
