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Queer Theory and "Cripping Incest Discourses(s)"

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The Law That Secured the Incest Taboo as the Foundation of Symbolic Family Structure

Cahill argues that incest quote continues to signify any non-normative arrangement that poses a serious risk to our traditional understandings of the family. Butler 2000 suggests that same-sex relationships and incest represent departures from the norm. One of symbolic consequences of the law so formulated is precisely the derealization of lesbian and gay forms of parenting, Cahill says.

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