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Undoing Monogamy: The Politics of Science and the Possibilities of Biology
Duke University Press
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978-0-8223-7421-3
Publication date:
2016
Book Chapter
Biopossibility: Molecular Monogamy and Audre Lorde’s Erotic
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Published:May 2016
This chapter builds on the “dyke ethics” developed in the previous chapter in a speculative exploration of the uses of a materialism grounded in the epistemological interventions of feminist and postcolonial science studies and queer historizations of sexuality. As such, it offers a creative approach to the materiality of embodiment that is critically alert to the ways in which certain disciplinary ways of knowing have been constructed as less mediated access to that materiality than others. In a revaluation of marginalized body-knowledges, it reads Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” as a biology of the erotic...
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