POLS 2150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Assisted Human Reproduction Act, Judith Butler, Incest Taboo
4 Apr 2016
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The idea that gay kinship is not a thing stems from the idea that sexuality needs to be organized for reproduction: marriage gives legal status to the family form to secure this institution through legal status. Kinship is neither a full autonomous sphere nor is it over or dead : lost the capacity to be formalized and tracked in conventional ways. In recent sociology conceptions of kinship have become disjoined from the marriage assumption: urban african american kinship functions through a network of women some related, some not, not possible to separate questions of kinship from property relations. Gay marriage legislative proposals often exclude rights to adoption or reproductive technologies as one of the assumed entitlements of marriage. Variations on kinship that depart from normative heterosexual based family forms are seen as dangerous to the child and perilous to natural and cultural laws.
