Where is the queer critique of same-sex marriage in South Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2729504 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tracey Lee Mccormick (University of Johannesburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 527-538 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-0184 • E-ISSN: 1469-2872 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00020184.2019.1584484 |
| OpenAlex | W2940696156 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article argues for the necessity of a queer anti-homophobic critique of same-sex marriage in the South African context. The literature on same-sex marriage in South Africa before and after the passing of the Civil Union Act 2006, while acknowledging queer critique, resolves such critique in favour of the ‘right’ to marry. From a queer point of view, same-sex marriage is problematic because it renews the distinctions between moral and immoral, it is antithetical to the politics of the gay and lesbian movement, it ‘undoes’ a long history of feminist research where it is argued that marriage is patriarchal and oppressive and finally, it cannot transform the exclusionary nature of marriage. I use Jane Bennett’s ‘“Solemnis(ing) beginnings”: Theories of same-sex marriage in the USA and South Africa’ (2015) as evidence of the most recent example of this point of view. In the course of my critique of Bennett’s article, I will also refer to all of the published literature on the same-sex marriage debate in South Africa. I argue that the opportunity to incorporate queer critiques of same-sex marriage might have been lost 12 years ago but there is no reason why we cannot have these conversations now. The aim of this article is to ignite such a conversation
Context (archaeology · Conversation · Lesbian · Political science · Politics · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Gender Studies · History · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Reproductive Health and Technologies
Defiant Desire
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
Possibilities Foreclosed
Terrorist Assemblages
Something old, something new
Gender Trouble
I've got two men and one woman’
The Distance between Death and Marriage
For better or worse? Same-sex marriage and the (re)making of hegemonic masculinities and femininities in South Africa
Vocabularies of the non-normative
Case note
Pinkface
I do’ or ‘we Won’T‘
Queer skin, straight masks
Are Same‐Sex Marriages UnAfrican? Same‐Sex Relationships and Belonging in Post‐Apartheid South Africa
Gory v Kolver NO 2007 (4) SA 97 (CC)
For whom does the bell toll? The challenges and possibilities of the Civil Union Act for family law in South Africa
The ‘Inevitability’ of Same-Sex Marriage in South Africa’s Post-Apartheid State
Terrorist Assemblages
A History of Same-Sex Marriage
Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual
Somewhere over the Rainbow Nation
Queering Citizenship
Ad/Dressing the Nation
Gaga feminism
New Slants on the Slippery Slope
Producing Homonormativity in Neoliberal South Africa
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |