Queer, Antinormativity, Counter-Normativity and Abjection

Zanghellini, Aleardo

doi:10.1080/10383441.2009.10854627

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“…I concur with Wiegman and Wilson's conclusion that antinormativity can become disabling: I stated my own version of that argument a decade ago (Zanghellini, 2009). Yet I cannot agree with the ground of their criticism, for it is unclear to me that the norms targeted by queer theory function like averages, rather than socially ratified prescriptions.…”

Section: Antihumanism and Antinormativitymentioning

confidence: 70%

Antihumanism in queer theory

Zanghellini

2019

Sexualities

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Although queer theory is distinguished by its antihumanistic rhetoric, in much of queer theory antihumanism is more about performance than substance. This is not a bad thing, for, on those occasions when queer theory takes its antihumanism too seriously, it commits itself to incoherence. I illustrate this through an intertextual critique of Edelman's and Bersani's works. Edelman's celebration of the death drive is internally torn between an amoral standpoint and immoral urges. Unlike recent critical interventions, however, my point is less to impugn queer theory's preoccupation with antinormativity, than the performance of antinormativity that manifests as queer antihumanism.

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Section: Antihumanism and Antinormativitymentioning

confidence: 70%

Antihumanism in queer theory

Zanghellini

2019

Sexualities

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“…Queer legal theory serves as a lens through which to interrogate and highlight the experiences and narratives of LGBTQ populations and non-normative sexuality, in particular as a useful tool within marriage literature, complementing empirical methods to highlight and investigate the marginalisation and devaluation of non-heterosexuality in legal hierarchies of sexuality. It is anti-heteronormative and anti-essentialist, seeking to divorce legal narratives from biologism and to investigate the construction, discipline and regulation of same-sex relationships (Zanghellini 2009). Queer theory has transformative potential that facilitates analysis of the lived experiences and narratives of LGBTQ individuals, focusing on the intersections of gender, sexuality, law, and society.…”

Section: Theory and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Queering Marriage: The Homoradical and Anti-Normativity

Maine

2021

Laws

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This article explores ‘bad’ sex in an age of same-sex marriage, through an analysis of the ‘homoradical’ as a rejection of both hetero and homo-normativities. Drawing on qualitative data from 29 LGBTQ interviewees, the article considers resistance to the discursive privileging of same-sex marriage in the context of Gayle Rubin’s theories of respectability and sexual hierarchies. These hierarchies constitute a ‘charmed circle’ of accepted sexual practices which are traditionally justified by marriage, procreation and/or love. It examines non-normative sexuality through the example of the lived experiences of non-normative, anti-assimilationist identities, particularly non-monogamy, public sex, and kink sex, showing how the ‘homoradical’ deviates from the normative practices that same-sex marriage reinforces.

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“…The appeal of using queer theory to read emotion in jurisprudence, then, lies in the normative, political commitments for justice that this queer reading can affirm. 17 In foregrounding these commitments, I want to urge those engaged in legal activism (such as judicial review and statutory reform) and critical legal scholarship (such as critical writing about law reform and legal rights) about queer minorities to recognise how emotion shapes specific legal claims and use emotion as a methodological lens to navigate the reach of legal progress aimed at supporting LGBTI people.…”

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Once more with feeling: queer activist legal scholarship and jurisprudence

Raj

2018

The International Journal of Human Rights

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Scholars and activists concerned with eliminating violence and discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people have generated passionate conversations about pursuing law reform to make injuries, intimacies, and identities visible while challenging how legal systems continue to marginalise queers. My paper contributes to these conversations by using emotion as an analytic register to navigate the ways case law seeks to 'progress' the intimacies and identities of LGBTI people from positions of injury. In doing so, I introduce a new approach to queer activist legal scholarship by reading emotion in law on two levels: I target its enactment in what I call 'pro-LGBTI cases' and it forms the register in which I pursue my evaluation of those cases. Rather than develop this analysis around specific doctrines or jurisdictions, I create my own activist-scholarly narrative by reading emotions through their enactments in pro-LGBTI cases that cross various sub-disciplines of law. From hate crime laws to marriage equality cases, this paper navigates competing emotions, such as hate and love, which simultaneously structure legal progress. Reading emotion enables us to address how legal recognition and visibility can work, paradoxically, to cover the queer injuries, intimacies, and identities they seek to address.

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Queer, Antinormativity, Counter-Normativity and Abjection

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Antihumanism in queer theory

Antihumanism in queer theory

Queering Marriage: The Homoradical and Anti-Normativity

Once more with feeling: queer activist legal scholarship and jurisprudence

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