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Queer Theory and "Cripping Incest Discourses(s)"

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The Importance of Disabilities in Contemporary Power

Judith Butler is actually ableist because she didn't crit her own ideas about incest. Any analysis which foregrounds one vector of power over another will doubtless become vulnerable to criticisms that it not only ignores or devalues the others, but that its own constructions depend upon the exclusion of the others in order to proceed. On the other hand, any analysis which pretends to be able to encompass every vector of power runs the risk of a certain epistemological imperialism," he says.

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