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As claried in note 9, I also intend this work as a contribution to queer theory:
enabling ‘a more expansive, mobile mapping of power’ (Butler 1994: 21) by situating
sex/gender as inextricable from heterosexism. In both instances, I am
attempting to deconstruct binary rigidities through a critical genealogy of both
historical-empirical processes (e.g. early state-making) and conceptual/symbolic
developments (e.g. western metaphysics, political theory). As intimated in note
10, I intend these efforts as a contribution to depolarizing – without ‘resolving’ –
the tension between material/structural/modernist and symbolic/discursive/
postmodernist orientations.
24 Similarly, even though male–male rape is not apparently heterosexual, the
naturalization of expressing domination in this form is inextricable from heterosexist
ideology and its denigration of the feminine.
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