sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies
Abstract
This paper analyzes the colonial state’s role in manufacturing sexual violence. Deconstructing parallels between sexual violence in state detention centers and incestuous abuse of children, this paper examines theories of normativity, sexual citizenship, U.S. nationalism, and Marxist interpretations of the family unit. In identifying all citizenship as sexual citizenship—and identifying queer as all those who are denied sexual citizenship—I suggest that liberation from the state is crucial to queer liberation and the amelioration of sexual violence.
Publication Date
5-31-2019
Recommended Citation
Zazanis, Kelsey
(2019)
"Sexual Citizenship, Incest, and the State: "The Unseen of the Crime","
sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies: Vol. 12, Article 5.
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https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/sprinkle/vol12/iss1/5
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