Title: A Feminist Agenda for Gay Men (Or: Catharine Mackinnon and the Invention of a Sex-Based Hope)
Abstract:In this Article, I concentrate on two main themes: (1) I use the work of Professor MacKinnon and her colleague Andrea Dworkin to critique the destructive role of pornography in gay men’s lives, and (2...In this Article, I concentrate on two main themes: (1) I use the work of Professor MacKinnon and her colleague Andrea Dworkin to critique the destructive role of pornography in gay men’s lives, and (2) I use this theory to expose the dangerousness of the poststructuralist theoretical project generally named “queer theory” when it is offered as an explanation of our lives and as a tool for “liberation.” I aim to show just exactly what its engagement with reality on a contingency basis only (making it an antithesis of feminism) costs. Of course, queer theory and queer legal theory are not monoliths. Not all work identifying with queer theory or as queer aligns itself with heterosexual male supremacy in the ways I critique in this essay. However, much of, if not most of, queer theory and queer legal theory shares the characteristics I critique below.Read More
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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