... Incest: Feminism, Foucault and the Law . London: Routledge, 1993 . Berlant , Lauren . “The Female Complaint.” Social Text 19/20 ( 1988 ): 237 –59. Brown , David , and Robert Merrill, eds. Violent Persuasions: The Politics and Imagery of Terrorism . Seattle: Bay, 1993 . Brown...

..., unknown parentage and incest—is foundational to the sexual economy of slavery. Rather than a taboo that finds heterosexual resolution, incest is a sexual construct of slavery that paradoxically enables the emergence of queer sexual and kinship affiliations. I ground my reading in the nineteenth-century...

... politely avoided that it is something of an elephant in the maiden-auntly parlor. Much work on Field thus far either adheres Field to a model of desexual- ized romantic friendship or identifies Field as lesbian.6 In both cases, incest hides in plain view. The women’s close...

... the widespread problem of incest in the patriarchal family and was vig- orously contesting legal definitions of abuse that ignored or downplayed nonpene- trative sexual acts. The myth of stranger danger was found to be a patriarchal ruse as feminists produced an array of statistics revealing that fathers...

... violence, and incest; and what it is like to live the stereotype of the degenerate South. While Allison's sexuality is a central part of her artistic profile, Bastard Out of Carolina 's queerness is not necessarily linked to a lesbian narrative. 19 That Allison vocalizes Bone's budding desire...

... and indigene as an encounter between a corrupt and literate society and an innocent unlettered one. What is endorsed, then, is the foundational move by which Livi-Strauss installs the incest taboo as at once natural and cultural. How fundamental this paradigm is to the Derridean project...

... representation of the Papin affair, Nancy Meckler’s 1994 film, Sister My Sister. Openly figuring the maids’ relationship as lesbian and contrasting it with the repressed ties between the mother-daughter pair who employ them, the film thematizes both lesbian incest and class relations. Its strategy...

... will not simply offer a scenario in which a young woman functions as her sister’s deceased mother, which, in and of itself, might constitute little more than a straight fantasy of neu- rotic lesbian incest. Instead, it will suggest a new, fluid approach to identification and subjectivity, celebrated...

..., Against the Closet asks the question of how writing about African American iden- tity and black cultural formations proceeds through sexualized tropes of sadomaso­ chism, homosexuality, incest, rape, lynching, and interracial love. For Abdur-­ Rahman, discourses of sexuality...

.... Freudian interpretations of human motivation have lost a great deal of the cultural power they held a half century ago, and as that power has diminished it has become more difficult to speak about incest in a matter-of-fact way as a psychic fait accompli. But when Bannon origi- nally published her...

... them for an orgy.16 The AFI then catalogs the film with the following keywords: “Feuds. Lesbianism. Incest. Group Sex. Mountain Life. Ozarks.”17 Other films alongside Orgy in the Ozarks — Tobacco Roody (1970) and Sweet Georgia (1972), to cite but two — also fostered links between sexual...

... crimes abhorred of God and man Which justice should correct with laws severe: In Ganymede the foul sodomitan, GANYMEDE AGONISTES 499 Within the cock vile incest doth appear, Witchcraft and murder by that cup...

..., which it institutes through the prohibition of incest. It is, therefore, the assumption of castration which creates the lack through which desire is instituted. . . . Desire reproduces the subject’s relation to a lost object. (851-54) The psychoanalytic production of desire reproduces...

... is a recognized scholar ( pandit). In this Adi Kanda he sings the birth of Bhagiratha.”38 Thinking and Imagining the “Impossible” In arguing that sexual relations or the mingling of sexual fl uids between female kin is “primary” or “prototypical incest,” Françoise Héritier...

... having very hot (and in the production, explicit) sex for the last seven years. When Prin realizes that she’s had sex with her daughter, the play, instead of hanging on to its comic beginnings and parodying the excesses of the incest taboo, capitu- lates to it completely, leaving Prin reviling...

... having very hot (and in the production, explicit) sex for the last seven years. When Prin realizes that she’s had sex with her daughter, the play, instead of hanging on to its comic beginnings and parodying the excesses of the incest taboo, capitu- lates to it completely, leaving Prin reviling...

... and parodying the excesses of the incest taboo, capitu- lates to it completely, leaving Prin reviling herself and her desires. Although she doesn’t gouge out her eyes, she does yell and scream and, at the height of her grieving self-immolation, throw herself into the pool, where the unflappable Joni...

... having very hot (and in the production, explicit) sex for the last seven years. When Prin realizes that she’s had sex with her daughter, the play, instead of hanging on to its comic beginnings and parodying the excesses of the incest taboo, capitu- lates to it completely, leaving Prin reviling...

...-­Strauss builds his theory of the incest prohibition and its setting in motion of the first exchange-­economy, the question arises of a theory of desire that is not necessarily sutured exclusively to the sexual difference on which both Jameson and Žižek’s psychoanalytic Marxism...

...: Race, Religion, Hate and Incest in Queer Politics .” Social Text , nos. 84–85 : 251 – 74 . Cohen Cathy J. 1997 . “ Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics? ” GLQ 3 , no. 4 : 437 – 65 . Coulthard Glen Sean . 2014 . Red Skin, White...