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Queer Theory and "Cripping Incest Discourses(s)"

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The Prohibition of Incest and Its Justifications

The prohibition of incest and its justifications is an ableist technology that works to minimize the number of disabled people in society. The effect of this prohibition is to maintain the eugenically based goal of maintaining a clean gene pool. This image of incest implies an abled couple because they are normative, fertile, and healthy. It dictates that they are not allowed to produce a disabled child. Any resultant child will further be constituted as disabled and mad.

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