%0 Journal Article
%T The Possibilities and Limits of Queer Strategies of Denaturalizing and Resignifying Gendered Symbolics
%A Wendy Mallette
%J Feminist Theology
%@ 1745-5189
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0966735018759462
%X In this article, I take up Marcella Althaus-Reid¡¯s queer strategy that pairs disaffiliation with intimate identification in order to draw out the possibilities and limits of queer strategies of resignification and denaturalization. I will use David M. Halperin¡¯s work on gay femininity, abjection, and camp as the primary site to investigate these queer strategies. This article¡¯s considerations have implications for recent directions taken in contemporary queer theology by challenging projects that presume a certain limitless capacity for queering or that seek to appropriate almost anything ¨C marriage, celibacy, or orthodoxy ¨C as queer. Rather than seeking to mitigate complicity in misogyny or trying to recuperate misogynist theological positions by highlighting their subversive queerness, Althaus-Reid¡¯s demands from queer theologians a prophetic, denunciatory posture that turns away from the imperial theological highways towards the queer ways of knowing and relating to the God at the margins of T-theology
%K Feminist
%K gay
%K camp
%K femininity
%K Marcella Althaus-Reid
%K David M. Halperin
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0966735018759462