ABSTRACT

The dildo brings the idea of a queer strategy vividly to life. First of all, the theoretical background to the dildo based on a queer strategy, parody. Secondly, merely its presence disrupts the binary gender system and the traditional heterosexuality in the sex act itself. The dildo forms the culmination of my analysis of subversive strategies of queer genders; it is a queer magic wand, a queer blender, or as Marie-Hélène Bourcier writes in her epilogue of Beatriz Preciado's Kontrasexuelles Manifest (Contra-sexual Manifesto): 'the trope of the dildo is itself already enough to class the process of discursive recycling that is accomplished in this text, not into the field of proliferation or the marking of difference, but into the field of contra-corporality.' 1 She also states that just as Wittig's lesbian thankfully broke away from the truth of the woman, the dildo breaks away from the truth of sex.