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Queer Theory and "Cripping Incest Discourses(s)"

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The Material Effects of Gripping Incest

Edelman argues that the figure of the child is mobilized to bolster heteronormativity. Queer people are produced by society as a grave threat to reproductive futurism and the child, he says. The proponents and opponents of marriage equality both mobilized quote our children's future as their key matter of concern. Edelman suggests queerness names the side of those not fighting for the children.

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